Ignoring the potential ramifications of a seizure of constitutional rights to fight the symptoms of some invented "Crime Crisis" is to me much more indictive of citizen's apathy. I make this assertion with the admission
uni- (dark) writes: that I don't know the specifics of your example, as you did not provide them. I spend the majority of the warm months on the fecal end of the stick in the Drug War. I personally do not drink, nor do I even smoke pot. A Warrior's sobriety has great survival value, and extends far beyond the ethnocentric denotation of "sobriety" in this western culture. As a consequence of having very long hair, and prefering Grateful Dead to mere Rock 'n Roll, I get stopped and searched frequently anytime I'm out of Wyoming. I prefer to be harrassed by law enforcement, than make the simple concession of cutting my hair. I wear the hairstyle of my Cheyenne ancestory for spiritual reasons. Being a civil libertarian, I accept this drastic change in my life brought on by the Drug War for very simple reasons. All the time law enforcement spends harrassing me, several people who are minding their own business and smoking a little pot, not to mention the use of other soft drugs, are getting away scott free. We keep looking at real life case law for precident in cyberspace legal defense. This is speech. That was established by EFF in the S Jackson et al. games case. Now we are looking at privacy. I have no personal privacy. Absolutely everything I do is open to inspection by the US Gov't. Warrentless search precident means that my accounts can be inspected. My passwords can be obtained by technological surveillance with out my know- lege, and my private accounts invaded. I live in a community where I don't even lock my front door- ever. This is widely known and most people are aware they are free to walk in my home any time they want, whether I am here or not. This trust is honored reciprocally. The current state of cberspace is exactly like being on Acid in 1964. I urge you all to study the parallel's of revolutionary uprising, and subsequent oppression of same by the US Gov't. I've seen the other side of the fence. We're in the business of reclaiming privacy and liberty, not struggling to keep it. -- PGP PUBLIC KEY via finger! JAFEFFM Speaking & Thinking For Myself! * eagle@deeptht.armory.com email info@eff.org * *** O U T L A W S On The E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R **** ***** Committed to Free Public Internet Access for World Peace *****