-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970613120008.13113J-100000@cp.pathfinder.com>, on 06/13/97 at 12:04 PM, Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com> said:
Get a clue. I did:
Of course there's an essential right to privacy from the government. (Beware government databases: Nazis used census data in Germany and Holland to track down and eliminate undesirables.)
Well this is rather a poor example. The requirment of a census was written into the costitution and with good reason. Many of the government actions are based on demographics congressional districting is a prime example. There is a fight going on in cogress right now as the current administration wants to be able to gestimate the census rather than doing an actuall head count so it can manipulate the figures any way it wants (ie change the figures in key congressional districts so they can re-draw them to favor their supporters). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6F5Vo9Co1n+aLhhAQGMOQQAkJ+3CqXwhsJVVO7xXNE2C91A4GQK1uXd GgBlABNshvWlZoqPsGcmnOm1QZVIUPBavPx4hHsVk3UMvaQeiwGeWfp1dBmmxGMo v2LqRev7dlsLAIUcG/2dZ3kaEy/S+Vlqtb04Pklq+vkjM3RFYDYfF5b1AkfntCnA laNv9MKl8w8= =iIwz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----