[53244] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bad news from Judge Richey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Thu Apr 4 18:25:23 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:54 EDT
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: tcmay@got.net
Cc: Cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
>At 3:28 AM 3/26/96, jim bell wrote:
>>I realize that this may appear to be a rather disrespectful tactic, but have
>>you considered reminding the judge that if you are not allowed to profit by
>>exporting encryption that the government doesn't want to see exported,
>>you'll just have to make money in some other way, and this may lead you to
>>talk to Jim Bell about implementing a program using encryption that doesn't
>>_need_ to be exported...legally anyway.
>Whoahh! Hold on there, Jimbo! You're crossing the line.
>You're coming perilously close to actually calling for the killing of a
>federal judge. My recollection is that a couple of folks have been arrested
>and charged for calling for the killing of judges.
Umm... one would guess that a federal judge would be against the
whole Assasination Politics idea, whether or not he himself became a target.
I doubt that pointing AP out would do any good... but one can point out to a
judge that, say, a mugger might mug him next without being threatening.
-Allen
