Replies to post #1221 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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zithead -- thank you for completely missing my point -- as long as we have our constitutional rights, genuine rule of law and real courts, defendants will have at least some chance to fight back against any manipulation (or outright fabrication) of evidence offered against them (in the case e.g. of images, be they from film, or digital), although of course the risk posed by manipulation/fabrication of digital evidence (including e.g. digital images created from images originally shot on film) clearly grows with each new generation of chips and software -- in a modern police state, however, with no such constitutional rights, no genuine rule of law and no real courts, the ever-increasing power both of digital surveillance devices, AND of computers and computer techniques for manipulating/creating digital "evidence", will continue to make it easier than it's ever been before for martial law authorities to "prove" anything against anybody (including for purposes of blackmail, intimidation and manipulation) with virtual reality "evidence" they can manufacture with a few clicks of a mouse and have handy to present to the show court and, if they like, to display to the populace to justify their actions and keep the populace "happy" (if not outright lusting for the blood of those the authorities want out of the way) -- for the record, btw, I didn't say a thing about the (merits or lack of merits of the) particular case discussed in the article I posted

and what the heck exactly were you saying with that 'ring through nose' quip? -- was that like what Rush said to 'rebut' a black caller with whom he disagreed? (hey, at least when I say something, one knows what I've said . . .) -- but if you must know -- I've never had any part of me pierced, let alone having ever had a ring through my nose -- and I have no black ancestry of which I'm aware (mostly german, then polish, then some irish/other european, that's all I know about), although I have always been particularly attracted to cute black/mixed-race women, and have spent what have in fact been the best years of my life so far in relationships with several remarkable such women whom I've had the good fortune to know