License plate lawsuit lost
mardi 26 mai 2015 à 14:00Michael Robertson tried to make San Diego give him the records about tracking his car by its license plate, but he lost.
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Michael Robertson tried to make San Diego give him the records about tracking his car by its license plate, but he lost.
The FBI interrogated Matt DeHart about charges of "espionage", apparently giving him drugs that caused psychosis (which he didn't have before), then charged him with "child pornography".
That was 5 years ago. His case is still in process.
To prosecute anyone for seeking, receiving or possessing copies of some publication is extremely dangerous to a free society because it is easy for the state to plant them on people. Thugs used to plant drugs on people to jail them; now they need only plant some "child pornography" in a memory stick.
We must reject this witch hunt, and the fear-mongering that supports it.
When the border agents searched the reporter's car, it is possible that they were installing something nasty in the car or one of its computers. She now lives in Berlin.
As "free" countries' governments arrest whistleblowers and hacktivists, their legal defense campaigns are hampered as companies refuse to raise funds for those campaigns.