-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Rich Graves <rich@c2.org> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, John F. Fricker wrote:
#3) The goal is the anonymous citizen. The first step it to secure #the data currently exposed. Can this be done _without_ legislation?
I disagree with this goal. The anonymous consumer/worker, yes; the public has no business knowing what I as an economic actor buy, read, and think. If I choose to participate fully in the political system, though, in ways that go beyond votes and petty contributions to others' campaigns, the public has an interest in my identity and biases. Anonymous voices can and should be heard, and they can and should be influential at times, but they don't get to run for office.
[Rant -- you touched a sore spot here, Rich.] And I disagree with Rich, at least in regard to the present system. My "representative," is Ileanna Ros Lehtinen (R.). No Democrats have chosen to run against her, and the Demopublican's beloved ballot laws prevent me from running and actually getting on the ballot. I would GLADLY vote for either Lucky Green or Black Unicorn if these nyms were running against this statist woman, but I am not given that (or any other) choice by the state. She has already "won" the "election," and thus will NOT APPEAR on the ballot. The state of Florida assumes that I would rather not vote for None Of The Above [NOTA], and my state is, once again, wrong. The Florida Supreme Court is carefully ignoring the Constitution(s) they all swore to uphold in these cases, and I am trying to use any medium I can to trumpet this fact, so that solutions like Mr. Bell's (yes, Jim, I know you have one for this, too) don't start sounding better and better. <sigh> :( [End Rant] P.S. Lucky & Uni: don't worry, I plan to [try to] write in "Jim Ray." JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "Ray's corrolary to Murphy's Law: 'You will be spared NOTHING.'" -- P. C. Ray (my dad) Defeat the Duopoly! Vote "NOTA," not Slick/Dull in November. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray Coming soon, the "Pennies For Perot" page. Keep billionaires off welfare! ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgxaBW1lp8bpvW01AQGRIQP+OZebKXfGgsKTdzIzld1vomnVqnB4nQ3L C0iDcTPqsEuEN/39nb+BinccCvjM3vvdxTVOYhs9QS1Gdf4TwkUE8+k3oWc1X7hy AtLcemGGQ+pwyMwfqd6gAboLM9oeg/QeRtaa+MXSdrl8WU/KCTWxeIQTH1/LPKLq 9KiTlgHH+2U= =tBZy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----