From: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:12:26 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Tim May)
Subject: Re: Shrinks as Narcs for the State
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(sorry, running behind on mail)

> (Many think this is as it should be. But why is this so? We don't require
> non-doctors and non-shrinks to report such threats. If Joe Cypherpunk tells
> me at a Cypherpunks meeting he thinks Janet Reno should be blown up on her
> September 7th visit to San Jose, I am under no obligation whatsoever to
> assist the police in verifying what his real intentions are, or of
> cooperating in any way. So why should a psychiatrist become a secret agent
> for the State? We live in a police state.)

	Actually, if you think the person _will_ do it, I believe you
are legally obligated to report.