[privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds

[Gregory Hicks]

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:05:33 -0500
> From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy at gmail.com>
> To: "Dave Dittrich" <dittrich at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
> Subject: Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds
> 
> On 9/21/06, Dave Dittrich <dittrich at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I think you mean "pissant", meaning small and meaningless.
> >
> > http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990331
> 
> LOL - indeed I did.
> 
> >
> > I'd love to see the people holding this opinion go toe to toe with
> > Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the other founding fathers,
> > 'splaining to them how they got that "tri-cameral" government
> > thing all wrong. Who needs an independent judiciary that
> > checks/balances the Congress and Executive?
> 
> Can you 'splain what opinion you are taking offense to, exactly?

The opinion that the government was/would be brought to it knees by a
pissant court...  When the court is doing the job as intended by the
Founding Fathers.


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