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From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject: Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow]
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 21:43:47 GMT
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strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>>  Well, that explains it.  The government has no real need to spy on people
>>who already love Big Brother; it's the people who are inclined to talk
>>back who need to be watched.

>Though I think this an overstatement, it does contain a grain of truth. It's
>drug dealers, spies, terrorists, and organized crime figures (assuming
>enough probable cause to convince a judge) who need to be watched, not
>law-abiding citizens.

And thus, COINTELPRO, in which horrible people who threatened the
republic by disagreeing with the Government were systematically kept
track of for years...

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Perry Metzger		pmetzger@shearson.com
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Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
