[FREE] stratfor (fwd)

[Greg Newby]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:38:23PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> > 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.
  -- gbn