From: "John Kelsey" <kelsey@plnet.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:23:26 +0800
To: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: US Senate bans laptops
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> From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
> To: Cypherpunks Lite <cp-lite@comsec.com>
> Subject: US Senate bans laptops
> Date: Sunday, September 21, 1997 10:37 AM

> These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who
> will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses.

This is really encouraging news!  Computers would likely lead to increased 
efficiency in Congress, and *that* isn't in the interests of any of us. 
These folks 
are in the business of taking peoples' life, liberty and property, for fun,
profit, and ideology. Just about anything that slows them down, including
their own mind-numbing stupidity, is a good thing.

   --John Kelsey, Counterpane Systems, kelsey@counterpane.com
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