From: geeman <geeman@best.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 13:56:33 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Just Say "No" to Congress
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970514223307.006b4704@best.com>
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I think I'd like to have some voice in who steps up to the bar
to fill the power vacuum, though, after the rapid oxidation 
within the Beltway.

At 09:13 AM 5/14/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>At 9:14 PM -0800 5/13/97, Lucky Green wrote:
>>At 12:19 PM 5/11/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>>You might remember I wrote recently about the DoJ report released this
>>>month that calls for new legislation to ban bomb-making info online. Now
>>>Feinstein's office tells me she's going to introduce a bill.
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>>Feinswine never saw a gun/mind control bill she didn't like. She is an
>>ultra fascist that rose to power thanks to the yellow dog Bay Area voters.
>>
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>Feinswine/Swinestein is the most despicable of all the politicians in
>Congress. (This is not just ideology speaking...her usual-ally Barbara
>Boxer is much less swinish, and even has some independent thoughts. I can't
>see I often agree with Boxer, but she's not the Big Sister automaton that
>Swinestein is.)
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>We're basically under assault from all directions. The bozos in Congress
>and state governments are spinning out new laws and obscure regulations
>faster than we can react...and of course they're using our money to
>generate these laws and lobby for them. Further, a mostly-brainwashed
>Washington media population is surprising uncritical of these blizzard
>drifts of new laws.
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>As others have noted, recently James Donald, the lawmakers play the "good
>cop, bad cop" game very well. Crypto becomes exportable (good cop), but
>only if keys are given to the government (bad cop). Speech is ostensibly
>protected by new laws, but new provisions criminalize racist, homophobic,
>disrespectful, hurtful, offensive, or unpopular opinions.
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>The "there ought to be a law" crowd is in high gear.
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>The only proper rebuttal is to reject their view that more laws will fix
>the societal ills they perceive.
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>Attempting to "work with them" only feeds the good cop/bad cop system, as
>the SAFE and Pro-CODE bills show.
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>Removing the Washington area as a malignant tumor requiring drastic surgery
>remains an option.
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>--Tim May
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>There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
>Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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>Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
>tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
>W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
>Higher Power: 2^1398269     | black markets, collapse of governments.
>"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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