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GNG News Guy
03-30-2008, 11:59 AM
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United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave a short speech (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/ag-mukasey-says.html) this week in Silicon Valley in which he equated piracy with terrorism. He spoke about the rise of IP crimes and the need for our country to protect ourselves from foreign threats by cracking down on these crimes. Discussing both counterfeiting and general piracy, he said that failure to protect ourselves from crime could lead to problems with both the economy and the state of public safety.

Mukasey s theories set the tone for him to defend warrantless wiretapping (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/28/BA69VROE9.DTL). The government 'shouldn't need a warrant when somebody picks up a phone in Iraq and calls the United States,' Mukasey said in a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

In a humorous but illuminating response to these speeches, ZeroPaid (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9366/Mukasy+-+Piracy+Fosters+Terrorism,+ZeroPaid+Offers+Pirate+ List) has published information about three anti-piracy organizations that are guilty of threatening United States security with their bad behavior.
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