From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:16:46 +0800
To: David Sternlight <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Markoff on Clipper III
Message-ID: <199607151725.KAA02150@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 09:35 PM 7/14/96 -0700, David Sternlight wrote:
>>At 02:33 PM 7/14/96 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>>>Last time I looked, the oath they took was to protect the Constitution --
>>>not the nation or national security.
>
>Did you miss the part in the Constitution about "provide for the common
>defence" 

If there is anything that is clear about GAK, it is a system which is NOT 
intended to benefit all citizens approximately equally.  The vast majority 
(over 99.99%) of the population will never be the victim of any sort of 
terrorism.  If anything, it's intended to provide job security for 
government employees who are increasingly aware that the unhappy villagers 
will be showing up at the castle with their torches.

The best thing the government could do to prevent terrorism is to simply 
stop misbehaving; to stop doing those things that make many ordinary 
citizens feel that they are far more a victim of their government that any 
terrorist or criminal.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com