From: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 11:17:10 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: e$
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In message <9408101428.AA26732@snark.imsi.com> perry@imsi.com writes:
> > My point is that checks made out to cash are not regarded as an
> > alternative currency.
> 
> My point is that the government doesn't give a flying fuck. They are
> simply trying to stop you from playing games. The law isn't like
> geometry -- there aren't axioms and rules for deriving one thing from
> another. The general principle is that they want to track all your
> transactions, and if you make it difficult they will either use
> existing law to jail you, or will produce a new law to try to do the
> same.

On what experience or observation do you base these rather extreme
remarks?

>	Your hair spliting is really completely irrelevant.

If you are saying that any form of legal argument is irrelevant to
the issues being discussed, then you are simply wrong.	The government
is staffed by a population which has more or less the same distribution
of attributes as the rest of the population of the US, except that,
probably they are on average somewhat better educated, somewhat more
intelligent, somewhat, generally, more middle class.  There are thugs
working for the government who will speak and reason much as you do.
There are also many reasonable and intelligent people.	And there are
real, genuine lawyers who understand precisely what they are doing and
are moved by legal arguments.

Demonization of the government is simply silly, as is dismissing all
logical argument.

--
Jim Dixon