Re: Forgeries are your Friend

On Thu, 22 May 1997 frissell@panix.com wrote:

So far in my close observation of the history of American jurisprudence I haven't seen too many written things that were legal at one point and later became (criminally) illegal.

I was thinking more of talking about things you do which are now legal but later banned. For example a signed admission of smoking followed by a ban and 'war on tobacco'. Not enough to lock you away for, but possibly enough to make you a candidate for a dawn raid by the 'jackbooted fascists'; I'm sure that if you had a nice piece of land to seize the message would be used as evidence to back up an 'anonymous tip' about cigarette dealing in order to get a warrant. Mark