[51934] in Cypherpunks
Re: rhetorical trickery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. Randolph)
Mon Mar 11 06:31:29 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 03:26:48 -0800
From: "John C. Randolph" <jcr@idiom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
tomservo@access.digex.net (Scott Fabbri) Says:
>An entity self-representing as "Vladimir Z. Nuri" writes:
>>sure, a government agent could insist, "well, don't be a bonehead.
>>it's obviously his diary, and surely contains all his crimes against
>>children".
>A standard attitude among LEOs is: "if you're not guilty of something, what
>are you hiding?" Skilled ones use this lever to get suspects to allow
>searches of their property on the flimsiest of pretenses.
This is why we need to adopt the standard attitude of "Well, Officer,
If you're not a jackbooted thug, why are you asking me to consent to
an unreasonable search?"
-jcr
