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Posted by Free Lunch on December 13, 2007, 6:09 pm
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# undercover operations.
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# The administration elected on a promise to remove government from people's
# lives had turned the country---in one law professor's phrase---into a
# "society of suspects."
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War #2 - Guns
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# www.gunowners.org
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# The Police even pointed a machine gun at the
# head of Mrs. Kuriatnk's six-year-old daughter.
Actually, I think the government says 'because organized crime would use
cryptography'; but criminals with guns is the generalization.
If you were a criminal, would you select cryptography that is 'Key Recovery'
("GAK" Government Access to Keys) compliant?
I don't think so.
"But we'll catch stupid criminals using GAK crypto!"
---Scott Charney, Computer Crime Unit, Department of Justice,
at 5/22/97 NYC cryptography conference
And equally stupid Congress members will support that logic.
The subject of law enforcement v. guns brings up a subtopic:
Burn Baby Burn
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I was watching MSNBC's "Time and Again" with Jane Pauley, and they went over
the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the "Symbionese Liberation Army".
The terrorists kept Ms. Hearst locked in a closet so small she couldn't move.
They would play games with her head, like suddenly dragging her out of the
closet, hold a gun to her head, and sometimes pull the trigger (on an empty
chamber).
Then they started screwing her. Again and again.
They took complete control of a sweet young college kid. The government knows
how that works. Yet the government charged her with bank robbery even though
she was under their mental control.
She had renounced her rich parents and t
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