NOYB wrote:


Someone stole my wife's ID and credit card info recently.

Yikes! That sucks. Sorry to hear about it.


I did a little more probing around and found that (thanks to the Patriot
Act) it's actually the Secret Service's Electronic Crime Task Force that
handles investigations into internet crimes.
Having gone through all of this, I realized that without the Patriot Act,
there'd be no agency with the authority, know-how, or interest to even
pursue a case like this. No wonder internet crime had become so
popular...and had become a preferred method of communication and revenue
generation by the terrorists.

I've seen the Patriot Act work in my favor...but have yet to see it work
against me or any other law-abiding citizen that I know.


But it wasn't the unPatriotic Act that provided help...it was the Secret
Service.

We had a couple of really nasty crank calls some years ago, two serious
enough to contact the local police, who put us in direct contact with
the FBI. They took care of the perps in a satisfactory fashion. One of
the perps no longer posts here, at least not under the handle he had
used in rec.boats.

This was before the unPatriotic Act.

Apparently the local police up here are a little more "with it."





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We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?