-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GUL.3.95.970616215033.19356A-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>, on 06/16/97 at 10:04 PM, Rich Graves <rcgraves@disposable.com> said:
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
At 05:02 PM 6/15/97 -0700, Rich Graves wrote: [...]
Of course it probably helped that the guy was white, and probably driving a "decent" car, and carrying "decent" guns and not some "Saturday Night Special."
The guy being white and educated may well have convinced the cop to not make a fuzz. My local newspaper recently ran an article about a few Hispanic looking folks who had some photographs of themselves holding guns in their hands developed at the supermarket. Before they even picked up the prints, the clerk had called the cops which in turn raided the unfortunate gun owners.
It turned out that the Hispanics owned the firearms legally.
I always knew you had a bleeding-heard liberal inside, just struggling to come out.
Yes, for some people, this is a police state. But the threat is not (just) the FBI/CIA/ATF/NSA; it's us. It's the people developing photos at the supermarket who aren't comfortable with Hispanics and "ebonites" having guns, and believe the police or TLAs should put a stop to it. Technical capabilities don't oppress people; people do.
If it wasn't for the fact that we *are* living in a police state the opions of a supermarket clerk would not be relevant. If we were living in a Constutional democracy where the TLAs had to abide by the laws of the land then the gestapo would have never even though of raiding the Hispanic gun owners. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6Y4Ho9Co1n+aLhhAQGTpQP/RyQ85jyjKpTNMvT95rrQu63vKiGcig2I Cs1f5ffTFSdRUDQppMzQbjDffS1F7GlX4PlSWZItOwXz9EuWEc1ToIgJrSb1DbBb atir3ivJh/VCLfj76gs9W/JQL90LAAw3asUEI3Myptw3CZ61A+E+UaVV+IFu+xKc 8t+YJ+OOndc= =KJLr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----