From: Cerridwyn Llewyellyn <ceridwyn@wolfenet.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 07:58:58 +0800
To: David Sternlight <david@sternlight.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape download requirements
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960720213701.006a4fc8@gonzo.wolfenet.com>
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>If they disagree with what Congress and the administration have done, there
>are well-established ways to petition Congress to change it. If they fail,
>t.s.--that's the way our system works. YOU don't get to force your will on
>the wider population, nor do YOU get to tell them that they are poor
>benighted fools who should agree with YOUR views on civil liberties. To
>assert otherwise is fascism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, pick one.

I don't think that demanding more liberty can in any way fall into any
of those three categories.  What happened to protecting a minorities Rights
from the Majority?  Simply because a majority decided they should take away
my Rights (in this case to encryption, and for the sake of argument, I will
concede for the moment that a majority actually did decide this) doesn't mean 
they should be taken away.  This is what the Constitution and other founding 
documents are designed to protect us against.  Saying "I have the Right to give 
encryption to anyone I want" is not forcing my will on the wider population,
it is an attempt to keep the wider population from forcing their 
un-Constitutional will on me.  //cerridwyn//