[48143] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tighe)
Fri Jan 26 10:08:47 1996
From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:04:15 -0600 (CST)
Cc: hallam@w3.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: tighe@spectrum.titan.com
In-Reply-To: <199601252139.QAA16761@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Jan 25, 96 04:39:07 pm
Perry E. Metzger writes:
>I am a funny sort of person. I don't believe that governments should
>be able to do anything that individuals cannot. If it is bad for me to
>steal, it is also bad for a government official to steal. If it is bad
>for me to listen in on my neighbor's phone calls, it is bad for the
>government, too.
I do not see anything funny, but you are at odds with the Constitution,
where the people have granted the government certain rights that they have
not granted to themselves. But it seems we may be making progress at
getting those rights ourselves.
