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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- In-Reply-To: lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Larry Loen)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.121512.24603@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov10.044148.22135@netcom.com> <1992Nov10.121736.21575@watson.ibm.com> <1dp5mpINNfat@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov11.151529.14633@cci632.cci.com> <1992Nov11.223405.12090@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:15:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.223405.12090@rchland.ibm.com>, lwloen@rchland (Larry Loen) writes:
- >We have about doubled the prison population in this country in the
- >last ten or so years. Built a lot of prisons. Spent billions.
- >Emptied the mental hospitals to find money to do it (indirectly,
- >but that's about what happened).
-
- [ and it doesn't help any ]
-
- That's probably at least partly because over 50 % (I don't remember -
- 70? 80?) of the people in prison are political prisoners. Operation
- Just Because, operation Prohibition, operation More Iron to the
- Streets, operation War on Constitution, operation Use Terrorist
- Tactics Against Evil Vitamin, Hemp and Mindfood Salesmen - whatever
- they call the one where armed thugs kick down people's doors, steal
- their property and kill them, then say "Sorry, wrong address".
-
- Followups directed outside sci.crypt et al.
-
- //Jyrki
-