[80656] in Cypherpunks
Re: Police & military access (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sat May 24 00:41:24 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:40:50 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 23:23:31 -0700
> From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
> Subject: Re: Police & military access
> > Do police have any civil rights not endowed to a individual citizen?
>
> No. But on the job, doing their state assigned duties, they have
> access to instrumentalities not available to private citizens or
> off-duty police. "On" and "off" duty may sometimes be a little fuzzy
> in practice, but the principle is clear. It isn't a big deal, and
> it's not a matter of civil rights.
Which principle is clear? That police like to confuse the issue as much as
possible to their advantage?
Of course it is a matter of civil rights. The police are a representative of
the CIVIL authorities, you have truly missed the entire point of the
constitution.
> A license to practice medicine
> gives you the ability to prescribe morphine. A certain class of
> drivers license lets you drive a school bus full of children.
True, but there is NO law that can dictate which doctor I choose let alone
if I choose one at all. At least there I have a choice, because of this the
comparison you are trying to draw is broke.
Jim Choate
CyberTects
ravage@ssz.com
