Official Anonymizing

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> It seems to me that John is taking the first steps toward a general 
> argument: That police should not be allowed to do undercover work. His 
> argument, taken to its logical conclusion, would prevent police from 
> infiltrating criminal organizations in meatspace (let's assume, for the 
> moment, that we're talking about serious criminal acts against property and 
> person, not victimless crimes).

See Japan. They have some interesting features built into their WWII
constitution limiting some police behaviour. Such a view, perhaps to a
less extreme degree, is not without precedence or merit.


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