[67168] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Right to Keep and Bear Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Thu Oct 3 14:53:46 1996
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02130500ae78384961a4@[10.0.2.15]>
No. And No. This argument will never fly in any court.
If you want to see why, go to my homepage
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin
and search for the (fictional!) "really pro-Clipper court decision".
Then find the section trashing this argument. (sorry I can't give a
better pointer but I'm not at work today).
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Steve Schear wrote:
> A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State,
> the right of the people
> to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
> --Constitution of the United States of America,
> Amendment II, 1791
>
> I'm not a consitiutional scholar, but it seems to me that since the
> government has already classed crypto as arms via ITAR and since the I am
> guaranteed the right to bear arms I choose to bear the crypto of my choice
> as part of my arsonal.
>
[etc.]
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