Ease of Buying Cell Phone Records Prompts Action

[Crazy Dave]

On NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162342&ft=1&f=1012

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Watch. They will take a disaster and make it worse

thus is Federal power, 2006.

[Atman]

2. You know why? BECAUSE IT CAN HAPPEN TO THEM!

Look how fast they jumped on this one. Seniors heads are exploding while waiting on line at the Rx Mart, Medicare is in shambles, the list of unattended real issues impacting real Americans grows daily. Yet they only seem to be able to pass things like credit card company protection, give-aways to their cronies and contributors. Not one damn thing has the republican controlled congress done to benefit or help the average American citizen.

But along comes an issue into which they're lumped right along with the flotsam and jetsom of society, the riff raff, if you will. You and me. Oh, and perhaps the hooker whose number appears on the call log to the phone Senator Bloodsucker's wife doesn't know he has. For $99, an entrepeneuring young male escort could purchase his phone records, and his wife could wind up with half of everything else. So"this is an issue of extreme importance to the American people!" he blusters to the cameras, and by midnight we'll have a bill outlawing anyone from purchasing another's phone records. Someone will make it a double-super-secret criminal activity under the Patriot Act to purchase a Congressman's phone records.

If they ever had to pay for health care or couldn't find daycare, they'd move pretty quick on legislation in those areas, too.

[TorchTheWitch]

3. Amen and amen

That's it in a nutshell.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Bingo. Spot on. Tally ho.

and jhoubetttja!

[Crazy Dave]

5. You brought up a good point

Being a scanner and shortwave enthusiast, I had completely forgotten about how Washington lawmakers steam-rolled new scanner laws litterally overnight prohibiting the manufacture of police scanners that could be adapted to listen to cell phone conversations. This was after a couple heard and taped a rather damaging conference call that included house speaker Newt Gingrich at the time.