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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced that music pirates are funding terrorism. Yes, that's it. Piracy is funding terrorists. Not the billions upon billions in profits generated by oil; no, it's the tens of millions in "Intellectual Property theft" by college students that is bankrolling Islamic extremists.

Seriously, how does Alberto keep a straight face when he says BS like that?

The proposed law scheduled to be introduced by Texas Republican (shocker) Rep. Lamar Smith permits wiretaps in investigations of copyright crimes...establish[es] a new copyright unit inside the FBI...[with] 'advanced tools of forensic science to investigate' copyright crimes.

Should this law pass, it would be a new federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison—roughly equivalent of manslaughter—just for having Limewire or Bit Torrent on your computer.

Here's a comprehensive list of unintended consequences resulting from "our "representatives" blatantly sucking up to Big Business at the expense of consumers' rights.