From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:24:12 +0800
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From: 	Vladimir Z. Nuri

I was musing over this phrase, "a government rules by consent of the =
governed"   [.......]
does it mean, "majority of the governed?" how exactly is consent =
expressed?
........................................................................=
...............

.  How exactly is consent extractedH^H^H^H^H^H^ requested?

.  When exactly is consent identified?=20

.  How exactly is government applied to the consentees?=20
   (caning, jailing, fines, etc.)

.  How exactly do consentors change methodologies when they suddenly =
realize that they, too, can be subject to their own device?

.  Why should non-consenting citizens live with governing methods which =
in fact conflict with the pursuit of those three human virtues:  life, =
liberty, happiness?

Supposedly, government is devised for ruling the "unruly";  a matter for =
definition and (dis)agreement which can provide endless hours of =
amusement for authoritarians, especially in court.

I hear tell that many who are no longer amused are now learning the many =
uses of encryption.  Thus the list. =20

(end of my comments)
    ..
Blanc