Sunday, November 19, 2006

Harold And Kumar At The Bottomless Party

approved the decree on wiretapping

The House approved the decree on interceptions with 413 yes, 1 no and 142 abstentions. The Senate had already approved the text in the past weeks, so now the text will not be changed.

The decree comes in the wake of scandals in recent years have disrupted our country. For some time you hear very often about wiretapping of persons intercepted, as conclusive evidence of wiretapping. Perhaps it is useful to make a small distinction.

reflect only the last two episodes that have seen players phones, often hot, many important people of our country, a situation emerges that only appears to be similar: Calciopoli and the Telecom affair.

Calciopoli was an operation carried out parallel investigations by the courts in Turin, Naples and Rome. So everything that has emerged is used before a real court, not only in front of the sports justice, provided that there is found in those call something criminal act. On this point there is no debate. It 's so.

Telecom on the deal but there is much to say, because we have discovered hundreds of phone records kept for private purposes, that is, without any court had ever ordered the necessary authorization. Because it must be said that no one can afford to listen to our calls until you had the placet by a magistrate. So those interceptions thus acquired are illegal and unlawful.

The decree regulates approved just this last situation: the illegal interception of telephone calls from individuals who do not are subject to judicial investigation. The illegal wiretapping must be destroyed: "destruction will not be granted where the intercepts are used as material evidence or for reasons related to other processes."

The decree severely punishes those who break the rules it contains, especially the newspapers to publish these phone calls. "As a repair can be obtained from the author of a publication fee of 50 cents per copy. A figure that is capable of swinging from 50,000 to one million euro. According to the size of the catchment area. The penalty, however, can not be less than 10 000 €. Whoever knowingly holds acts, the media or documents that were to be destroyed is punished with imprisonment from six months to four years. Apply the penalty of imprisonment from one to five if the offense is committed by a public official or an employee of a public service. "

seems to me just like that. And 'uncivilized country to throw into the facts private citizens for the sake of gossip, of selling more copies at all costs. Let the courts decide what is lawful and what is not published on such delicate matters. We do not think that this will limit the freedom of the press if it were touch of a doubt about the fact that you think then prevail the right of the person they will not be vilified on the right of journalists to inform. Just right?

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