At 02:47 AM 9/4/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

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At 3:02 AM 9/4/96, James A. Donald wrote:

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At 10:33 PM 9/3/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:

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As the recent discussion of knives, switchblades, and throwing stars showed, such ambiguous laws are often used to keep the coloreds down.

Gunlaws and druglaws have deep roots in racism, but it is politically incorrect to say, even if I can find it in the congressional record. [and I can.] But then it was certainly Jim Bell who wrote:

Perhaps the most ominous part of making "use of encryption to thwart an investigation" illegal is _not_ that remailer operators might be prosecuted, but that they might NOT be prosecuted in a deal where (in exchange for not being prosecuted) they continue to operate the remailer, "cracked" or sabotaged so that they share all the info with the cops. While even that won't make chained remailers totally useless, eventually suspicions of such a crack will surface, which will help sabotage the credibility of all >remailers, not just the ones that have been "stung."

If someone tried a scheme involving violence such as A. P. through a remailer I was involved in, the feds would not have to threaten me with prosecution to get me to cooperate with them. I may not keep any logs right now, Jim, but if your little scheme gets underway I will cooperate willingly as long as I don't compromise the privacy of non- violent people such as drug users & sellers. For them, I would go to jail; for you, I would even cooperate with the BATF (which should be defunded 100%, IMO). Violence begats violence which begats even larger government, don't start us on that road -- leave me in peace.