* Reply to msg originally in CYPHERPUNKS Uu> From: hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu ("Robert A. Hayden") Uu> Actually, with the gun paranoia in the US today, this law could very Uu> well be upheld, dispite 1st amendments ramifications. I think that when one observes the blatantly unconstitutional USSC decisions regarding Amendments Two, Four, Five and Ten, there's no reason to believe that they will respect the First, either. As Snyder pointed out in his "A Nation of Cowards" article, we are a society ruled, and a culture led, by persons who overestimate the power of the word. Everything else that would enhance physical empowerment of the individual is suspect. The collision is when the "word" is about physical empowerment. Michigan (like socialist Canada) has outlawed these texts. The BATF is straining to stretch "aiding and abetting" to cover sales of printed information. I have no doubt the USSC would uphold bans on "dangerous, terrorist" texts. I know that the Second Amendment advocates who take the constitutional concept of the General Militia very seriously are heavily investigating encryption and electronic security. ["One armed man controls one hundred unarmed men." - V.I. Lenin]