[91650] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cato forum tomorrow: should money laundering be a crime?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mix)
Tue Dec 9 16:04:33 1997
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:04:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Mix <mixmaster@remail.obscura.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Mix <mixmaster@remail.obscura.com>
Lucky Green wrote:
>If the feds can *kill* you for any reason or no reason at all, they
>certainly can throw you into the slammer for whatever you may choose to
>utter.
From Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience":
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just
man is also a prison."
[...]
"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of
government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth, -certainly
the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a
rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider
whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a
nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I
say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the
machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend
myself to the wrong which I condemn."
