At 1:28 PM -0500 9/5/00, Gary Jeffers wrote:
Fellow Cypherpunks,
THE LAWYER GAMBIT
I remember reading in old anti-IRS literature about a technique for avoiding prosecutions. A client would tell a lawyer that he wanted to do something and would ask if it were legal to do. The lawyer would then give his opinion as to wheather it was legal or not. If the lawyer said that it was legal and gave his opinion in writing, then the client could proceed without out worry. The lawyer's opinion would stop any criminal prosecution.
And the nitwits who believed this are now serving ten to twenty on income tax evasion charges. You really think that if I, for example, were to waste three years of my life getting a law degree and then passing the bar that my advice would absolve someone of criminal charges/ You were a fool several years ago. Apparently the years you were away have not helped. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.