From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:48:07 +0800
To: Gary Howland <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [noise] Re: Do you feel lucky, punk?
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At 06:03 AM 3/12/96 -0500, Gary Howland wrote:
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>Black Unicorn write:
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, jim bell wrote:
>> > Remember, one of the basic assumptions that any supporter of the Leahy bill
>> > could be making is that it will be interpreted INTELLIGENTLY by courts.
>
>> Wrong.  The assumption is that the rules of statuatory construction and a
>> long history of weighing legislative history will be used in intrepreting
>> the statute.
>
>Surely one of the basic assumptions of the supporter of any bill is that it
>_will_ be interpreted intelligently?  [Note - Jim is not saying this is the
>_only_ assumption].

Exactly!

>It's hard to make bills foolproof, since fools are so ingenious ...

And hard-working, too!