From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:38:48 -0800 (PST)
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: The Utility of Privacy
In-Reply-To: <3.0b36.32.19961118232424.00b845f8@panix.com>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:31:07 -0500
> From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
> To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>, Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
> Cc: Huge Cajones Remailer <nobody@huge.cajones.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: The Utility of Privacy
> 
> At 06:54 PM 11/18/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
> >> Not long ago, a college education was essentially a death warrant 
> >> in Cambodia.  Prior to that, a degree was considered a good thing
> >> there.  People saw no reason to hid the fact that they had been
> >> in school.  Trouble is, things changed.
> >
> >Oh, come on.  That could never happen here.
> 
> Where have I heard that line before?  Sandy was giving an actual example of
> a general problem.  Educated people were executed in Cambodia.  That may
> not happen here but it is very common for innocent legal activities or
> characteristics to later become very illegal and subject to punishment.

sar'casm n. [LL sarcasmos < Gr sarkasmos < sarkazein, to tear flesh like
dogs, speak bitterly] 1. a taunting, sneering, cutting or caustic remark;
gife or jeer, generally ironic.


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