From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 12:04:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: New GAK Bill
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At 8:11 PM -0700 9/5/97, TruthMonger wrote:
>John Young wrote:
>>
>> 5 September 1997, MSNBC:
>>
>> FBI Director Louis Freeh floats a new proposal at a congressional
>> hearing to outlaw non-breakable crypto products.
>
>  Surprise, surprise!
>  It's amazing that nobody saw this coming. I guess we were all fools
>for trusting the mainstream media to warn us of the possibility of
>the government taking this fascist, dictatorial, mind-control action.
>  Gee, I sure wish I hadn't turned in all my guns.

Irony aside, some of us saw this coming more than 5 years ago.

As the saying goes, "check the archives."

--Tim May

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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