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Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada

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From: Carl M Kadie
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:53
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rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Enhanced 911 Services) writes:

[...]
>   o  The vast majority of us Canadians, as in *people*, agree 
>      with this idea of banning evidence to protect the accused.
>      You are "helping" to thwart the democratic desires of the
>      Canadian people.
[...]
>Do you know what happened the last time a Canadian government pissed off 
>the Canadian people?  That's right -- we smashed them out of existence,
>down from a vast majority of some hundreds of seats to TWO SEATS.
[...]

You have persuaded me that Canadian democracy is healthy, but not that
Canadian freedom of expression and freedom to read are healthy. I see
these freedoms as individual rights and am very leery of even majority
attempts to limit them.

- Carl
-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
 = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie)
Subject: Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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