From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:39:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re:Texas Driver's License database on the web (fwd)
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> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:17:24 -0400
> Subject: Re:Texas Driver's License database on the web
> From: lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)

>   It amazes me that in an age when government and corporations have
> access to untold mountains of information about all of us, that we
> seem to get upset when Joe Average is given access to that same
> information.

I at least have a contractual relationship with both of them that provides
me at least some promise of fair arbitration. Something I don't have with
Joe Average implicitly.

>   The Machine feeds off of us by taking away our rights of self
> expression and self defence and then convincing us that the
> Machine is our benefactor and protector while our fellow humans
> are a threat to us and should be feared.

The Machine takes the rights we give up willingly for a long-term loan on a
40" television and another $10k a year.

>   Thus we end up fearing people with different religious views
> instead of the Machine that launches a murderous assault on the
> men, women and children who are a threat to our mainstream views.

Not just religious views, but skin color, sex, etc. This is a function of
all social animals (in fact the society wouldn't work if it wasn't) and in
particular primates. To draw the conclusion that this somehow flows from our
contractual agreements based on impatience and greed is illogical.

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