-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19970614074032.37364@bywater.songbird.com>, on 06/14/97 at 07:40 AM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> said:
On Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 08:58:36AM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote: [...]
You have two choices you can take the Libertarian view of a minimal governement where all it's actions are reveiwable by it's citizens or you can take the Statest view of big governemtn where all is's actions are hidden and all "solutions" are more regulation and biger government.
The consistent libertarian/anarchist view of this would be that the privacy or non-privacy of records is completely determined by contract between the person supplying the information and the agency collecting it. For example, a medical license would be granted by agencies that granted such licenses. If you wanted a license from a particular agency you would deal with them. The value of the license is determined by the reputation of the agency, not whether or not they give out doctors home addresses.
This is fine if the licensing is being done in the private sector. If it is being done by the government then it must be public. You can not have a democracy if everything the governmnet does is hidden from the citizens it is to server.
The whole privacy issue is a strawman proped up by the government to frighten the sheeple so they can pass their agenda. What's their agenda? To have a series of privacy laws they can hide behind to keep their actions hidden from public view.
An amusing example of a conspiracy theory. You are pretty good at these, you know. :-)
No conspiracy Kent just SOP for the government. I believe the current phrase is "spin-doctoring". Anyone who has spent any time watching how governemnt works knows that quite often they will create a "problem" for the sole purpose of providing a "solution". - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 iQCVAwUBM6KxtY9Co1n+aLhhAQG4pQQAs5wbcmE1MekiPkVnbJsICLL7eyf3JwZK oIAFEqsoa+eRvPYMVJSdlerefvmrCqfMYiOqixrCTFQJQ9re/TDtRwfGTJWHqE8W Jh/3QvjgeMva9Phl7K0efZ06abeaSRIKMWcnbJikad720TGHKp2sVGlsn5die0yP X18Plk6V2Hk= =Wxck -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----