sender: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>:

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... Phil

This guy scares me more than any number of "gun nuts"... O_O 01234567 dave_taffs@mentorg.com

Personally I have a lot of respect for Phil with regards to areas we can at least agree on. Hopefully, we can at least agree on the exercise of free speech. We can see at the very least that the adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't hold true for political polarities. All of us see some threat to rights by government, varying by degree and intent. Instead of bickering (and name calling) perhaps we should seek common ground in this forum: Cryptography. There are those of us who focus on breaking the government monopoly on power by removing money from its exclusive control, promoting digital money with the ability for anonymity. It would be very hard for a government to be oppressive when it doesn't control society through its purse strings. (It makes it hard to unilaterally raise or even have taxes, too.)