XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: htuttle@central.services.gov   
      
   "Fit to Print"  wrote...   
   > CANADIAN POLICE CHIEFS WANT SURVEILLANCE SURCHARGE   
   > Canada's police chiefs are proposing a surcharge of about 25 cents on   
   > monthly telephone and Internet bills to cover the cost of tapping into the   
   > communications of terrorists and other criminals. The suggestion is intended   
   > to resolve a standoff between police forces and telecommunications companies   
   > over who should cover the expense of providing investigators with access to   
   > phone calls and e-mail messages.   
   > Full story: www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1092606743312_57/   
      
   If you don't recognize my alias, it's from the movie "Brazil" and in   
   the movie there was an idea almost as absurd.  The Ministry of   
   Information was eating up 6% of the GNP so they came up with the   
   brilliant idea of charging suspects for the costs of the information   
   used in their interrogation.  My former alias, Archibald Buttle,   
   was mistakenly arrested by stormtroopers and after he was bagged   
   the supervisor presented his wife with a bill for the cost of his   
   arrest.  Like George Orwell, Terry Gilliam intended his work as a   
   warning and not a blueprint.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)