[80610] in Cypherpunks
Re: Forgeries are your Friend
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Grant)
Fri May 23 06:25:11 1997
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 02:46:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>
To: frissell@panix.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970522203625.03fffe64@panix.com>
Reply-To: Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>
On Thu, 22 May 1997 frissell@panix.com wrote:
> So far in my close observation of the history of American jurisprudence I
> haven't seen too many written things that were legal at one point and later
> became (criminally) illegal.
I was thinking more of talking about things you do which are now legal but
later banned. For example a signed admission of smoking followed by a ban
and 'war on tobacco'. Not enough to lock you away for, but possibly enough
to make you a candidate for a dawn raid by the 'jackbooted fascists'; I'm
sure that if you had a nice piece of land to seize the message would be
used as evidence to back up an 'anonymous tip' about cigarette dealing in
order to get a warrant.
Mark
