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Story: Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals

Powerfull laws need to be executed by the right people or not become reality at all. Somehow I don't think that the police and courts will suddenly have enough means, skills, experience, tools, insight, training, etc, etc to prevent blunder after blunder (needly tucked away under the carpet of public awareness for political reasons) from taking place.

Reality is that with a law like this the police and the courts can invade your life, privacy, goods and even your freedom when they THINK they have enough against you. Which is something else then having to PROOF it. And they can do this even BEFORE conviction.

The enormous blunder people keep on making is thinking that when they hear something that 'sounds right' in some mystical way all that's required to actually make it a reality AS INTENTED and keep it that way will somehow follow soon enough by means of 'good managing' and everything opposing that are just 'details' from 'overfocused and emotional small groups of people'. Well, time and time again getting stucked in such a tunnel vision will prevent from seeing that ten ton truck coming from the right in time. Never mind the gaping whole further down the road. And that little red light glowing on your dashboard.

Reality is that plenty of rights already have been taken away. And that plenty of powers already have been imposed. Each and every time because it was 'needed' to deal with 'something'. Well that 'something' is still there yet even more is still required? At which point are we going to admit that we may be going around the real issues here? That perhaps causes are elsewhere?

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