Re: Disinformation (or the Truth?) About Clipper

> Phil Karn says:
> > >The idea of a disinformation campaign to oppose Clipper really bothers me.  
> > >Isn't the true about Clipper damning enough?  Lying about Clipper seems like
> > 
> > I agree completely. Telling the truth is all that's necessary.

You know, I'm a person that rarely lies, I don't lie to aquaintances
let alone friends, but in this regard I think I have to side with Tim.
We don't have the time or money to flood the media with the truth,  this
thing has to be STOPPED by any means necessary, The truth will surface
one way or the other, It will surface when it is too late and we are all
in jail for using illegal crypto, or it will surface when Clipper is finally
derailed and the nation/industrialized world is free to be able to have
the truth known.


	"THINK, It ain't illegal... yet." - George Clinton

I don't think the issue is "telling the truth" or not, telling the truth
is the only way to go in this instance if the kind of world that Clipper
-- and Bill Casey's top Russian specialist being a spy -- represents
is not to self-perpetuate.  The backlash to Clipper is a big jab in the
eye to the thoroughly self-indulgent and self-righteous "intelligence
establishment" of which people like Dorothy Denning are only the willing
lapdogs.  

The American people are squarely on our side on this as long as they are
presented with a fair statement of the question: do you want the 
government to have the right to see or hear every single piece of
electronic information written by you, to you or about you?  

The struggle is not over whether to tell the truth, or whether there is
enough time to tell the whole truth.  The struggle is to find a message
that encapulizes all of our technical and political and personal misgivings
with this system *and* the forces driving it forward, make that message
accessible to the broad public and make sure that the public hears it and
has a chance to make it the real fulcrum of decision.