[66883] in Cypherpunks
Re: More proposals for European censorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Allen Smith)
Mon Sep 30 15:24:37 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:04 EDT
From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: trei@process.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: IN%"trei@process.com" 24-SEP-1996 07:54:10.53
>Or are you suggesting that this particular gang of sub-humans was
>exposed at this time in an attempt to influence policy, implying that
>the Belgian LEAs knew about, but did not stop the ring until they
>needed a publicity coup?
How about "The LEAs put more effort into solving cases which can
get a political benefit than ones that don't"? Given limited police
resources (fortunately), they've got to prioritize somehow... and given
politically-appointed higher-ups, some form of concentration on
helpful-publicity cases is inevitable.
-Allen
