[86556] in Cypherpunks
Re: A Reality Check & the Full Citizenship Campaign
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sun Sep 14 14:33:31 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102809b041ba2c93f3@[10.0.2.15]>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:38:42 -0400
To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>, Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk@ix.netcom.com>,
cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: Vinnie Moscaritolo <vinnie@vmeng.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 12:04 pm -0400 on 9/14/97, Steve Schear wrote:
> So, if these "instruments of freedom" could only be useful to criminals,
> then the last great hope for our country may be in the hands of
> drug-trafficers, terrorists and the like, since only they will be free ;-)
Either that, or we apply Moscaritolo's Conjecture:
"If we could just pass a few more laws, we'd all be criminals."
:-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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