[52030] in Cypherpunks
Re: [noise] Re: Do you feel lucky, punk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Tue Mar 12 15:43:37 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:44:16 -0800
To: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 06:03 AM 3/12/96 -0500, Gary Howland wrote:
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>Black Unicorn write:
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, jim bell wrote:
>> > Remember, one of the basic assumptions that any supporter of the Leahy bill
>> > could be making is that it will be interpreted INTELLIGENTLY by courts.
>
>> Wrong. The assumption is that the rules of statuatory construction and a
>> long history of weighing legislative history will be used in intrepreting
>> the statute.
>
>Surely one of the basic assumptions of the supporter of any bill is that it
>_will_ be interpreted intelligently? [Note - Jim is not saying this is the
>_only_ assumption].
Exactly!
>It's hard to make bills foolproof, since fools are so ingenious ...
And hard-working, too!
