Re: Guns and Slaves
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Sun, 30 May 1999 22:02:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Guns and Slaves
To: extropians@extropy.com
Date sent: Sat, 29 May 1999 17:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net (none)>
Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/)
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> >> Note also that the recently-proposed bomb-recipe bill in Congress
> >> makes publishing certain information on the Internet a "Federal
> >> crime of violence". If lawmakers can redefine "involuntary
> >> servitude" so that it doesn't include the draft, surely they can
> >> redefine "violence" so that it includes writing HTML.
>
> > Violence, as I define it, is the physical harming of another.
>
> As do I. But if the government has all the firepower,
> their definitions count.
>
As long as citizens possess the vote, they can enforce their
definitions by choosing the definers they prefer.
>
> Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
> are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
> for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
>