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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:04:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Graves <rcgraves@disposable.com> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970616070059.0076d9c4@netcom13.netcom.com> Reply-To: Rich Graves <rcgraves@disposable.com> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lucky Green wrote: > At 05:02 PM 6/15/97 -0700, Rich Graves wrote: [...] > >Of course it probably helped that the guy was white, and probably > >driving a "decent" car, and carrying "decent" guns and not some > >"Saturday Night Special." > > The guy being white and educated may well have convinced the cop to not > make a fuzz. My local newspaper recently ran an article about a few > Hispanic looking folks who had some photographs of themselves holding guns > in their hands developed at the supermarket. Before they even picked up the > prints, the clerk had called the cops which in turn raided the unfortunate > gun owners. > > It turned out that the Hispanics owned the firearms legally. I always knew you had a bleeding-heard liberal inside, just struggling to come out. Yes, for some people, this is a police state. But the threat is not (just) the FBI/CIA/ATF/NSA; it's us. It's the people developing photos at the supermarket who aren't comfortable with Hispanics and "ebonites" having guns, and believe the police or TLAs should put a stop to it. Technical capabilities don't oppress people; people do. -rich http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/
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