From: "Richard F. Dutcher" <rfdutcher@igc.apc.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 15:09:49 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: "bad" government
Message-ID: <199501302310.PAA13622@mail.igc.apc.org>
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> Subject:       RE: "bad" government
> Cc:            cypherpunks@toad.com

> From: Richard K. Moore
> 
> >This has always been the case throughout history - the forces of dark, of
>> disinformation, have always attempted to keep true power from the hands of
>> the people.
> 
>> So why are you on the wrong side?
> .............................................................
> 
> So considering the political consequences from the use of cryptography, 
> as continuously elaborated upon here, what are you doing on this list  
> -  learning how to achieve a libertarian ideal?
> 
>     ..
> Blanc
> 

Do you assume privacy and protection from arbitrary power are solely 
libertarian concerns?  If so, educate yourself and check out the ACLU 
and Amnesty International ...

I even know lots of cyrpto-anarcho-libbers [or whatever Tim May is 
calling them nowadays ;-] who are willing to concede, under pressure, 
that unfettered corporations can be as dangerous to freedom as any 
government.

So encrypt away, guys, and I'll keep telling *my* compatriots that no, 
"the modem in Washington" didn't rig all the vote-counting computers 
in the last election.  I'm relying on you-all to keep it that way, 
while others try to make/keep voting meaningful.  It's called 
division of labor ...
Rich Dutcher, San Francisco Greens
P.O. Box 77005, San Francisco, California 94107 USA

"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
                          Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars"

Greens, of course, only enslave plants - so weed-whackers work better than cops ...