NODE 42c21a4dRe: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto Bill
nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer)Fri, 20 Jun 1997 21:33:01 +0800
Declan McCullagh:
> From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@vtw.org>
> Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto B
ill
>
> A little more of polisci 101:
>
> These 8 members of Congress didn't just vote in our favor here, they've
> placed crypto on an agenda at a higher level than something else they
> wanted to get through the committee. Imagine being Sen. Burns, and knowing
> that you have just placed your own agenda at risk in order to stand up for
> crypto, knowing there's a non-neglible chance you might lose.
>
> By sheer definition, you've placed crypto on your agenda higher than
> something else. Not only am I really damn happy to see this, but very
> happy to know that 8 senators think so little of the key recovery that
> they'd jeapordize their own agendas for it.
>
> We owe them a great big debt of thanks, not the derision that goes with
> Alice in Wonderland political punditry.
Imagine!
Shabbir's obvious amazement that a senator would put support of our
Constitutional rights above his own "agenda" is very telling. Like
most of those senators, he's been in Washington too long.
It seems not to occur to those in D.C. that the very idea of congress
deigning to tell us how we can communicate with each other is utterly
offensive.
NODE feb58aa4Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto Bill
Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:19:37 +0800
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At 06:25 AM 6/20/97 -0700, Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:
>It seems not to occur to those in D.C. that the very idea of congress
>deigning to tell us how we can communicate with each other is utterly
>offensive.
And unlike others, I am not afraid to say in public that (as in so many other
things) I will refuse to obey congressional enactments in this area.
DCF
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