Re: [OT] Speaking of Sweden... (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:48:31 -0600, Ron wrote in message
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> On 03/05/07 10:57, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
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> > You can if you want, but I don't see a point.
> > Sweden's population seems think Sweden is functioning quite well.
> > That's what matters to them..
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> http://www.thelocal.se/6645/20070309/
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> Deputy prime minister Maud Olofsson has added a new
> twist to Sweden's divisive surveillance debate. The
> Centre Party leader claims that defence minister Mikael
> Odenberg's proposed legislation would merely codify
> practices that have already been in operation for decades.
>
> Previously, at a time when all telecommunications were
> state-operated, Sweden's National Defence Radio Estab-
> lishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA) regularly tapped
> telephone lines in and out of the country, says Olofsson.
..having lived there for a coupla years, I would not be surprised
to see them being comfortable with that fact.
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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