[48063] in Cypherpunks
Re: RANT: cypherpunks do NSA's job for them!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Thu Jan 25 19:50:48 1996
From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:28:08 -0600
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601252238.OAA07065@netcom22.netcom.com>
Vladimir Z. Nuri writes:
> the Tao of bad government: if you really want to get rid of a law,
> act and think at all times as if it doesn't even exist.
I accept that that's one way of going about things, but I challenge
you to demonstrate conclusively that it is the only means to generate
political interest in opposition to a law. I happen to disagree with
this, and I refuse to accept the wacky notion that by explaining to
somebody that what they're doing is in violation of a pointless stupid
law, and explaining why it's only through wide exposure of that
pointless stupidity that the law and others like it can be struck
down, that I am unwittingly strengthening the law. Balderdash.
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