On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:22:14 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: NOTE: I AM NOT ON CYPHERPUNKS. PLEASE Cc ME DIRECTLY.
We're out of luck here! Owning explosive is verboten! And real soon, passing gaz with a high content of methane will be an indictable offence! :-)
Certainly you're not constraining a response to an illegal use of force to legal means ;-)
Well, maybe, maybe not. It depends. No use of becoming a martyr if nobody cares... Blowing a SWAT team would be just the right thing to get forever in the klink, while blowing up the story over the net might blow-up the klinks themselves... It is all a question of return on investment, and what price you can afford. Happily enough, we now have strong encryption and the net. There is much less need to spill blood in order to disseminate information.
Everything you own is a privilege given to you by the Ruler. Didn't you know that komrade?
Rights are what you insist you have and can make stick through any means at your disposal.
If the use of force was optimal, historically, we'd have been living in paradize since the first fight of all time happened. Only, it doesn't work that way...
Our colonial revolutionaries certainly didn't limit the scope of their rights by what King George allowed.
I wholeheartedly agree, but neither did they live in the same context. Beside, it was the only way they could act. Nowadays, we have the phone and the net. But I agree that without threath of physical action, no govt (itself based ultimately on physical threath) will ever stop doing just as it pleases him. Only, you don't have to come up with big house blow-up things. Only the menace of physical resistance and of the dissemination of information suffice. The govt is fed by the voluntary actions of the citizenry. The day large groups decide to stop paying taxes, the govt will simply starve and grind to a halt. Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:0xC58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:0x5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C PGP ID:0x6CBA71F7:485888E9FD68415A2945 ACCB366D38486CBA71F7