Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down

Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by jcromartie on Friday March 04, 2011 @10:35AM (#2288360)

Why not? Wouldn't it be better for the government's PR situation to let us know that they are catching real terrorists instead of just prodding and handholding incompetent fools?

Maybe I don't understand anti-terrorism... but why trot out these phony stings and make the public think that these are just a bunch of incompetent over-hyped organizations (and I mean terrorist and intelligence alike)? If we are supposed to be suspicious and wary, wouldn't it be beneficial to have something really scary to feed the public?

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by dhimes on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:29PM (#2288886)

Depends. It doesn't require too much imagination to conceive of scenarios where the present course is better. Besides, the public was fed scary shit for political manipulation. But that doesn't mean that the other isn't true.

But I've said all I'm going to say on that.

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by ohashi on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:27PM (#2288876)

What good would that do? Make you feel your tax dollars were hard at work while you realize you almost got nuked yesterday?

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