From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 03:06:38 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: crypto and bagpipes [NOISE]
In-Reply-To: <199606280352.XAA06868@jekyll.piermont.com>
Message-ID: <199606291737.MAA24643@homeport.org>
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Damnit, Perry, the fact that you don't like them doesn't mean we
should outlaw them!  :)

Adam

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
| vinnie moscaritolo writes:
| > >>>A Missive From: David Kovar (kovar@nda.com)
| [...]
| > >>>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!
| 
| No one who has heard sustained bagpipe playing can deny the fact that
| bagpipes are indeed an instrument of war, with no legitimate place in
| peaceful everyday society.
| 
| Perry
| 


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