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Skriven 2009-03-17 17:02:48 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 29565 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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Ward Dossche wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday March 17 2009 at 10:15:

WD>>> Quite recently a journalist somewhere threw a shoe at the US Prez as
WD>>> a statement of "Glad to be rid of you". Most of the free world found
WD>>> it amusing but the guy is now looking at several years in the
WD>>> slammer.

RB>> And lucky he got off so lightly. A "journalist" has the job of
RB>> reporting the news, not making it. People who do such things are
RB>> incompetent, to say the least.

WD> Members of the press are fabricating news all the time.

At a typewriter or terminal. Not by throwing things at heads of state. If you
want to excuse stuff like that, you might as well also excuse assassination.
Already forgotten Massoud?

That has nothing to do with journalism.

RB>> Not a "move", Ward. A rule. One that I don't like any more than you
RB>> do, but with the difference that I don't submit to it - my travel to
RB>> the USA is in the past tense. You allow things to be done to you that
RB>> I reject and consider criminal invasion of privacy.

WD> You privacy is invaded ever day of your life, even in Germany.

Not in this way. I've never been fingerprinted or had a mug shot taken of me,
and don't intend to allow that. You may not be disturbed by things like that,
but I am.

WD> Details of every phone call are recorded, cell-phone usage is mapped
WD> throughout the world (your cell-phone is on, then they know pretty
WD> well where you were), usage of your plastic is tracked and stored, all
WD> your incoming and outgoing emails are stored, also your incoming and
WD> outgoing SMS's are stored.

Possible in theory, but not in practice. Germans are pretty radical in privacy
matters.

WD> It's the law ... even in Germany.

Talk about Belgium, not Germany. I live here, you know. If anyone wants to
bitch about the situation in Germany, leave it to me. You bitch all you want
about Belgium.

Cheers, Bob

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