Re: Choices

At 11:05 PM 2/10/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote:

>Gov does have the right (in fact the duty) to regulate communications 
>between citizens and non-citizens/sites in other lands (and if you do not 
>think communications with sites such as anon.penet.fi are inside the charter 
>of the NSA, I have this prime Florida land - we're in the dry season now 8*).

Needless to say, I disagree.  Government does not possess ANY "rights."
Merely powers.  Secondly, the Constitution says NOTHING about the authority
of the Federal government to "regulate" (or, for that matter, even merely
MONITOR) communications cross-border.  Sounds to me like you're arguing the
statist line.

Jim Bell

Klaatu Burada Nikto.

On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:

> Needless to say, I disagree.  Government does not possess ANY "rights."
> Merely powers.  Secondly, the Constitution says NOTHING about the authority
> of the Federal government to "regulate" (or, for that matter, even merely
> MONITOR) communications cross-border.  Sounds to me like you're arguing the
> statist line.

The government has, for quite some time, attempted to control most things 
in our lives (and quite successfully) by evoking the "interstate commerce 
clause" incantation.  Only recently has the Supreme Court put its 
collective foot down (in the recently-decided "no guns within 1000 feet 
of a school" law, which the government LOST).  Let's hope it does it more 
often :)
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