From: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 06:19:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CJR returned to sender
Message-ID: <199510251319.JAA86135@tequesta.gate.net>
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Sameer writes:

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>Unless the crypto export laws and the laws surrouding CJRs have a
>provision for 'jokes', then the return of Raph's properly formed CJR
>request seems to me rather, um, illegal?

This may open up some interesting Freedom Of Information Act
possibilities for Raph, (but IANAL). A FOIA request usually isn't
very fast, but they can be interesting, and even (occasionally)
funny. Raph's situation sounds promising, if my hypothetical FOIA
isn't squelched by the "national security" exception. This seems
unlikely, if Tim is correct about the shirt's machine-unreadability.

>	The law, in my opinion, is a joke. Does that mean I can ignore
>it?

Members of the legal community, including judges, are sometimes
known as "humor-impaired" regarding the many laws that clearly
*are* jokes to many people. Generally the "crimes" mentioned in
these laws have no individual victims -- see Abe Lincoln .sig
quote below.
JMR


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Regards, Jim Ray

 "A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which
  our government was founded" -- Abraham Lincoln 
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