From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:20:25 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: Bernstein files for partial summary judgement in crypto
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jim bell wrote:
> Would digging up an embarrassing revelation about "our Nation or its people" 
> constitute "irreparable damage" sufficient to justify concluding that the 
> 1st amendment didn't apply?  Had the fact that we'd slaughtered Indians in 
> the late 1800's been kept secret until today, would its discovery and 
> publication be that "irreparable damage" that regulation could legitimately 
> seek to prohibit?  Would the news that the events leading up to the "Gulf of 
> Tonkin resolution" were a fraud cause "irreparable damage"?  Would finding 
> out the truth about the Watergate incident cause "irreparable damage"?    

Just recall how the government harassed the smithsonian institution 
for their plans to put togethrr an exhibition about bombing of japan.
i was profoundly disgusted (even though i am a militarist).


	- Igor.