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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:23:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov2.084229.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
-
- >But there's another
- >situation where the case is different: Encrypted record keeping.
- >Imagine that Richard Nixon, [. . .]
- >Or imagine that Ollie North's famous deleted mail messages had been encrypted.
- >Or, to take a recent example, that Caspar Weinberger [. . .]
- This is really cute. You want more sweeping powers for the
- government so it can protect us from the likes of Nixon and Ollie
- North. Shoot, they WERE the government!! Any time you give the
- feds more power they will use it to help the Nixons and Ollie Norths
- of this world to step on folks like me and you. Go ahead, give up
- your freedom to our mommy the government. I'll cast my lot with
- the Tom Paines and Ben Franklins of this world.
-
- >Oh, and if you think "well, it'll be better for me to refuse anyway - it'll
- >just be a couple of days in jail" - think again. A judge can hold you in jail
- >essentially indefinitely. (There was a celebrated case of a woman who refused
- >to reveal the whereabouts of her child, claiming her ex-husband was abusing
- >her. She was in jail for several YEARS, and was only freed as the result of a
- >new law that, for the first time, placed a limit on such jailings. This law
- >was passed in direct response to this case; I don't know how broadly it is
- >drafted, but even when it applies, it still could leave you as a guest of the
- >government for quite some time.)
- You sound like you approve! No one wants to go to jail but I hope
- that when push comes to shove our generation will contain some
- people like the people who wrote the U.S. constitution. Freedom
- often requires sacrifice. It was that way in Tom Paine's day and
- it will probably always be that way.
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- smg
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