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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 23:55:42 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
-
- > More to the point -- are citizens free from being beaten at gunpoint
- >by officers of the law acting outside the law? The Rodney King case
- >is one example of officers acting outside the law (all white juries
- >not withstanding). Another case was just recently when students at
- >UCSC were maced, kicked and beaten while holding a sit-in. Some of
-
- And you think any of these cases would have been improved if the people
- had guns? King and those students would all be dead.
-
- > As for registering keys...why do law enforcement officials think
- >they have a right to know what I am saying to another person. It seems
- >like this is an infringement on *freedom* of expression -- if my expression
- >to another person *must* be subject to monitoring, is it really free?
-
- Certainly when they framed the constution, they did not mean "free
- speach" as "You can keep any secret you want to keep". It means that I
- can in public say things and not be brought to court for saying them.
-