Xah Lee's Unixism

[John Thingstad]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:36:29 -0700, Alan Balmer <albalmer at att.net> wrote:

>
> BTW, did you mean "extortion"? Distortion is what we see a lot of
> here, though Hoover may have done some of that too.
>

I guess what I see are endless possibilities of abuse.
No government can be trusted with that type of power.
I feel it is our responsibility as programmers to prevent this type
of abuse of information. I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists.
When you sell out freedom, liberty and justice then what exactly are we  
fighting to protect?
Bader-Meihof groups philosophy was that in order to protect the public  
 from terror
the government would turn the country into a police state. Then the people  
would rebel and
support the revolution. From this point of view Bush is letting the  
terrorist's win by
sacrificing our constitutional rights.

Anyhow this is probably not the place to discuss this...

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