From: Gary Miller (garymiller@starband.net)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 10:40:41 MST
>> Personally, I generally try to obey all the laws that I know and
>> understand. But I am well aware that it is ... less than 1% ... so I
>> would only issue a "so don't commit a crime" comment as a form of
>> sarcasm. But that doesn't seem to be what you are doing.
I don't think if you encrypt a message about tearing the tag off your
mattress or commiting adultery they are going to use this law to throw
you in prison.
The supreme court threw out the use of the Rico law against
anti-abortion protesters because it's original approved intent was
against organized crime.
What's more, unless you're involved in some pretty heavy conspiracies,
the NSA isn't going to even waste the computer power on you to try to
read your messages!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Charles Hixson
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:52 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: My Blind Spot - Patriot Act II
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> ...
>
>Okay, let me get this straight: PAII proposes to make the use of
>encryption *while in the commission of a felony* itself a felonious
>act. Okay, so as long as I don't commit any felonies, I don't have
>anything to worry about. ...
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
>"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
> - Gen. John Stark
>"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
>"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
>For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
>...
>
How will you know whether or not your are committing a felony? I,
personally, know less than 1% of the laws on the books, and those only
in a popularized form. And I don't know how much less than one percent,
but I do know that it decreases with every law that gets passed.
Personally, I generally try to obey all the laws that I know and
understand. But I am well aware that it is ... less than 1% ... so I
would only issue a "so don't commit a crime" comment as a form of
sarcasm. But that doesn't seem to be what you are doing.
-- -- Charles Hixson Gnu software that is free, The best is yet to be.
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