Re: free speech and the government
At 09:25 PM 2/4/96 +0000, Stephan Mohr wrote:
Actually, I am glad that the whole story started over some neo-nazi stuff and not a recipe to easily make a very potent poison.
For some strange reason, people believe it is difficult to find information on such things. I picked up my copy of _Poisons and Poisoners_ by C. J. S. Thompson at Barnes and Noble in the discount section for $9.98. Books on the topic can also be picked up in bookstores catering to Murder Mystery fans. (Some excelent descriptions of esoteric poisons can be derived from these books.) "Forbidden" information is hard to forbid with the existance of the printing press. Electronic networks make the information even more available. Are you suggesting that we burn all the books with "dangerous" information? And who's definition of "danger" do we take? Yours? Mine? The National Council of Churches? Crypto relevence: Some people regard the ability to hide "dangerous" information to be as "dangerous" as the information hidden. Freedom of Speech includes the right to choose who can listen to that speech. Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ Is the operating system half NT or half full?
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