From: vinnie moscaritolo <vinnie@webstuff.apple.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:46:34 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: crypto and bagpipes [NOISE]
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>>>A Missive From: David Kovar (kovar@nda.com)
>>>
>>>What is the connection between crypto and bagpipes? Well
>>>crypto is regarded as an armament by the US ITAR regulations.
>>>Later this month a British court is to rule as to whether
>>>bagpipes are still classified as "instruments of war"!
>>>The story is in today's Times newspaper (The British one)
>>>It seems that a piper is being taken to court for practising
>>>on Hampstead Heath, which has a bye-law forbidding music.
>>>Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied the charge, citing a case in 1746,
>>>where bagpipes were declared to be instruments of war, not musical
>>>instruments, and a subsequent Act of Parliament which specifically
>>>stated that they were weapons. He claims he wasn't playing a musical
>>>instrument, but practising with a weapon!
>>>
>>>The imagination boggles if his claim is successful! Will it
>>>be possible to sue pipers for assault with a deadly weapon?
>>>Will airports be equipped with bagpipe detectors?
>>>
>>>David Wadsworth                |  Wohin der Weg? Kein Weg!
>>>dwadsw@etna.demon.co.uk        |  Ins Unbetretene. (Faust)



Vinnie Moscaritolo
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