[86820] in Cypherpunks
Re: sooner or later
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stonedog@ns1.net-gate.com)
Fri Sep 19 11:54:44 1997
From: stonedog@ns1.net-gate.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:53:33 -0400 (EDT)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970918220732.16362D-100000@eskimo.com>
Reply-To: stonedog@ns1.net-gate.com
"3. A ban will eventually be lifted, because of the impracticality of
drug enforcement, LEA corruption, the creation of black market drugs of
questionable quality, gangs raiding evidence room stockpiles,
ineffectiveness, sympathetic jurors, etc. The sooner it goes into effect,
the sooner it goes away."
Once a massive enforcement agency is founded, as we've seen time and again
this century, it rarely gets smaller and more limited in scope, and _very_
rarely ever goes away altogether. And rest assured that, like the IRS,
EPA, and the Park Service, this new agency will have its own Special
Weapons teams, snipers, APV's...everything a self-respecting TLA needs.
-stonedog
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Wei Dai wrote:
> 3. A ban will eventually be lifted, because of the impracticality of GAK,
> abuses, wide-spread security problems caused by added complexity or
> hackers stealing the master keys, ineffectiveness, sympathetic courts etc.
> The sooner it comes into effect, the sooner it goes away.
