[117096] in Cypherpunks
A race...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Thu Aug 26 12:43:07 1999
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From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:05:06 -0400
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Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:03:15 -0500, Sean Roach wrote:
>Personally, I'm suprised that Canada went to gun restrictions before the
>U.S. Canada has much sparser population then the U.S. and the way I see
>it, the impulse to control ones neighbors is directly proportional to the
>proximity of ones neighbors.
Our Komradship of Kanada is the testing ground for the United States.
[note here, NOT the "Unites States of America" which is the association of
sovereign states but the "United States", i.e. the PRIVATE corporation that is
the govt of the U.S. that claimed and usurped the right to coerce certain
policies over the citizens of the United States of America.]
Beside, you have a second amendment that we don't even have. Let's not
nitpick on the fact that neither the US constitution nor the kanadian
constitutions are *lawfull* documents here... You also have property rights,
which we don't have. As for the motivation for gun control, you
understandably missed it for it is not evident.
If the Ruling Class is to remain in it's ruling position, it HAS to disarm the
peasanry, i.e. you and me. This was realized in the seventies and has been
steadily going forward since, irrelevant of any elected flavour of govt. With
the advent of the net and cryptography, the peasantry is getting more and more
power for it can circumvent the natural and imposed limitations on the flow of
political and economical information. Thus, it becomes a race for the Elites:
disarm the peasantry before it gets sufficently informed an pissed-off that it
takes action.
As for Komradship of Kanada not being a test ground for other things such as
Anti-Drug enforcment, it is because the testing was never a necessary step, it
could simply be implemented within the US of A without major tests abroad
because the Rulers knew it would never raise any major opposition. The spin-
doctoring about the "evilness" of drugs was rather easy to make the peasantry
swallow.
Ciao
jfa
"The only power any government has is to crack down on crime and
criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, then one
makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation
of law-abiding citizens. What's there in that for anyone. But just
pass the kinds of law that can neither be observed nor enforced nor
objectively interpreted and you create a nation of lawbreakers
- and then you can cash in on their guilt."
-from _Atlas_Shrugged_ by Ayn Rand
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