From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:27:44 -0800 (PST)
To: ericm@lne.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Jackboots in Canada
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Eric said:
> owner-cypherpunks@sirius.infonex.com writes:
> > ...Hell's Angels and Rock Machine...have been battling for control of the
> > illegal drug trade in Canada.
> > Canadian justice minister, Allan Rock, said the measures would include
> > broadening laws on search warrants, electronic eavesdropping and bail
> > conditions for arrested gang members.
> The alternative, proposed by some goverment person (governor?) in Quebec, was
> to suspend "individual liberties" for bikers, making it possible to
> pull one over at any time, search them, and if explosives are found
> assume they're guilty until proven innocent. 
> That last part just floored me, how could anyone be willing to throw
> away rights like that?  At least here in the US they're not so

	It isn't their rights being thrown away, it is the rights of the 
evil bikers.