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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote:

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Yes. Though these days they have Emergency Powers for everything, and chronic, continually extended 'Emergencies'.

I've always enjoyed the regular declarations of emergencies required to keep the encryption export control regime active.

If an emergency exists for decades, can it still be properly called one?

I guess so, if it's still "emerging." A difficult birth, perhaps.

Heh, if labor takes too long you go in for a Caesarian. Damn, those Romans showing up again... Maybe that's what they mean by a "surgical strike"... ------- Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored. -JY