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 :) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring