Re: Why Leahy is No Friend of Ours
At 11:31 PM 5/3/96, Black Unicorn wrote:
"Decently on the ball"? I hope you are being ironic.
Not at all. (Did you mean sarcastic?) His staff are some of the most
"irony n. 1. the expression of one's meaning by language of the opposite or a different tendency, e.g., adoption of a laudatory tone for the purpose of ridicule." --Oxford I was actually being facetious (one of the several sub-classes of irony) when I asked if you were being ironic, to make a point. On your other points, we mostly agree. I was just emphasizing the Senator Patrick Leahy pushed the bill that make the Surveillance State a reality. This should _never_ be forgotten. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: [Well deserved irony lecture deleted]
On your other points, we mostly agree.
I was just emphasizing the Senator Patrick Leahy pushed the bill that make the Surveillance State a reality. This should _never_ be forgotten.
Agreed. I never meant to imply otherwise.
--Tim May
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