[47326] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto anarchist getting through customs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Horowitz)
Tue Jan 16 18:39:13 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:16:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
To: attila <attila@primenet.com>
Cc: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960116073156.8962B-100000@usr2.primenet.com>
I didn't say I like the State. I said that there isn't, relatively
speaking, much *political* content to the police-state that is the border.
Remember when those Sandanista sympathizers made the news, quite a number
of years ago, for getting detained /FBI-interogated/harrassed when they
crossed back into the USA? It made the news because that sort of thing
*is out of the ordinary* for the USA.
And, while I will certainly entertain the suggestion that their actions
had a political underpinning, the Feds didn't lack for allegations of
violation of United States Statutes to justify the harrasment.
If these do-gooders had been doing something that comported with the
sympathys of the (then) Administration, if they were in step with the
Emperor's current "party line", then any such criminal violations would
have been ignored. We all know that. So what? Welcome to realpolitic.
Alan Horowitz
alanh@norfolk.infi.net
