Right - here are some quotes from Micali's paper in the Crypto 92 proceedings.
"Abstract. We show how to construct public-key cryptosystems that are _fair_, that is, strike a good balance, in a democratic country, between the needs of the Government and those of the Citizens. [...]
In a democratic country, the needs of the government should be identical to the needs of the citizenry. One of the basic political ideas upon which our society is founded is that government serves the people and not the other way around. We've seen Micali's point raised again and again. The NSA spokesman quoted on this list some time ago, whose name I have forgotten, made this point as well. He also claimed that "government money" had been used to pay for most recent cryptographic advances. This is likely untrue, but it does raise an important philosophical point: The government has no money of its own, it spends the money of the citizenry. The argument that the citizenry should be denied the benefits of their expenditures is a weak one. These points are likely to be obvious to most readers of this list, but I haven't seen them raised. I think that every time an NSA official or White House spokesman or anyone else questions the important political principle of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" we should point this out as often as we can. We must delegitimize NSA and their friends and show them for the rascals they truly are. Peter