[83143] in Cypherpunks
Re: CCTV Cameras in Britain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Tue Jul 15 22:14:40 1997
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:33:41 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
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>
> I wouldn't. Its the state's duty to protect my liberties and if they can't
> or won't the obligation falls on me.
>
> The product of liberty and security is a constant.
This is obviously false. Zero liberty and zero security is a quite
possible situation (laying strapped to the table, waiting for your
lethal injection, for example), as is some liberty and some security (the
normal situation).
Of course, in this context "liberty" is a religious word, with little
semantic content.
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Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
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