oh pooh, you've seen this material run through over and over. perhaps you respect my "opinion" because you know i am right. i know i don't respect your position, because i am irrevocably convinced that you are wrong.
Well, I guess that by the above paragraph, I am perfectly just in calling you a nearsighted fool?
acceptable:
-tracking of all chemicals which have been or can be manufactured into poisons, explosives, or psychoactives (cannot buy or sell anonymously)
<BZZZZT> thanks for playing. Nearly _all_ chemicals can be manufactured into poisons, not to mention explosives. You wanna register your bottle of bleach with the feds? I can make a mustard gas clone out of it. You wanna register your bag of sugar? There are explosives that can be made out of it. Hell, **OXYGEN** is toxic in high concentrations. You wanna track THAT? Life is %100 fatal. You can't change that.
-tracking of all automobiles and deadly weapons
Why? What percentage of murders are _solved_ because the police find the murder weapon, and use THAT to track it back to the killer? I'd bet that it is an insignificant percentage (first person who points out a single case gets the twit award--a free copy of GNU emacs source code mailed to your email address--I KNOW it happens, but is it statistically common? No.) And why track autos? Nosy little feds wanna know where I am?
unacceptable: -restrictions on what i can think, who i can speak to, what i can say, and how i say it, aside from shouting lies in a crowded movie theater or other such crowded public place.
But by saying MEAN THINGS, you are hurting people, and that is wrong.
-restrictions on how i can defend myself when my life is threatened
Defending yourself isn't necessary, We, the government will do that for you.
-prohibitions on drug purchase, sale, or use
Tracking chemicals...
i'm not ever going to change my position on this. you can drive bamboo shoots under my fingernails and toenails, you can megadose me on LSD,
Sounds like one of these has happened already, and I don't hear you screaming...
you can pull my teeth and administer electric shocks to my testicles, and i am still going to believe that absolute information privacy, and absolute freedom of thought and conversation, are inalienable human rights.
1) Torture doesn't change someones mind. There are other means of doing that. 2) Very unimaginative.
if what you want to stop is airplane explosions, landmines, poisoned water supplies, and mailbombs, please PLEASE make it your personal mission to see that chemicals are more tightly controlled, airports have the latest and greatest nuclear resonance tomographic imagers, landmines aren't manufactured or sold any longer, water supplies are tested around the clock using the latest technology, and everyone knows not to open unsolicited packages.
Or just make it unnecessary to carry out terrorist acts.
i don't trust my government. i don't trust ANY government. government is that segment of society that arrogates a monopoly on "legitimate violence." it is composed of powergrabbers, and ass-kissers with sinecures, who are paid with stolen money, some of it stolen from me.
You don't trust _any_ government, yet you want them to track _every_ chemical that people purchase? There is crypto relevance in there somewhere I think... Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com