On 2005-01-08T12:54:25-0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious
That was scarcasm.
psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards who named it. It doesn't so much matter that it's obvious.
Somehow, I don't think the bastards were hoping for the kind of "Patriotism" I have in mind: Large caliber guns to protect our constitutional freedoms, or at least to make it damn costly for individuals to carry out orders trying to take them away.
It's the socially conservative public at large who have fallen prey to the association between the PATRIOT act and patriotism. I did not intend to suggest that you or most other cypherpunks members have. -- "War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free." -Heraclitus 53