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Originally Posted by Rathji
Welcome to the United States, where the government has been deciding what is illegal since 1776.
I know nothing specific about this law other than what has been said in this thread, so I won't comment on its effectiveness or if I think it is a good idea, but if your main basis for being upset is because the government is making laws and deciding what is illegal, then you seriously need to give your head a shake.
That is how the world works. The governments make the laws. They decide what is illegal. They decide on the punishments. Just be glad that ours is democratic so you can vote to boot them out if they are doing something you don't like.
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Perhaps the anger is not that the govnment can decide what is illegal, but rather the fact they can do it unilaterally. Normally to do something like this you'd need a judge to sign off on a variety of documents once the agency can prove that it is indeed viloating american law. Now, it seems more "patriot act" like, where the government can just do as they please without having to justify the reasoning to a judge.