[42160] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto's Role in Evil?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Tue Oct 24 13:27:26 1995
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 12:52:40 EDT
From: Carl Ellison <cme@TIS.COM>
To: tcmay@got.net
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Timothy C. May's message of Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:20:41 -0700 <199510100354.UAA10505@comsec.com>
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:20:41 -0700
I'm late getting to my mail backlog.
>From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
>It's clear that cops cannot protect people, only try to catch the perpetrators.
I heard a particularly scary quote from Director Freeh last Sunday on NPR's
Weekend Edition (I believe that was the show -- segment A-1) in which he
declared "our job is to protect the people".
If that were the FBI's job, then we'd have to look at it as one does to a
loving parent and give it all the authority and respect a child gives a
parent.
- Carl
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