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Peter Wood (pwood@magpie.com) wrote:
: Fringe Ryder (fringe@netcom.com) wrote:
: : And I feel the same way - that we should get in the habit - because the
: : way the Clinton administration fears encryption, privacy, and the people,
: : they're going to render encryption illegal any moment now.  I don't fear
: : the Republicans nearly as much - more of them follow the Constitution,
: : as shown by the ratio of Dems vs. Republicans supporting gun bans.

: Paranoia, ignorance and a splash of single-issue tunnel vision: the
: right-wing political cocktail of the 90s.

And tarring incorrectly is the sole method of the leftist liberals.

Paranoia?  We've got evidence that the government wants to quash us.  
We see it with BATF abuses, with this encryption stuff, with anti-speech
codes, and with anti-gun laws.  They may not be after you or I per se, but
they do fear independent Americans.

Ignorance?  My guess is I've studied more Supreme Court cases than you. 
I know the hows, wherefores, etc. of both guns and encryption.  I've
written encryption programs long before they came en vogue, and 
written gun safety newsletters years ago.  (Safety because my belief is
that if we can reduce accidents and get more guns in gun safes, people
will be less afraid of them.)

Single-Issue Tunnel Vision:  Not here.  If you've watched my messages
across the internet (although I don't see why you would), you'd 
realize I mostly write about OS/2 and computers.  I spend more of
my time volunteering time and helping people than I do with any
politics.  My prime political issue is taxation - but I do also
follow and care about drug policy, attempts to ban guns or to 
legalize carrying them (many of the latter of which have passed 
recently), anything affecting piloting of small aircraft (which
Clinton helped out substantially in August), and electronic
freedom.

Nice of you to confirm your mindless-follower-of-the-liberals 
status for us.  As you can see, you can't apply your brush 
to me.  Try applying it to yourself.


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Stamp out apathy...  aw, who cares.  Ambivalence is the TRUE opiate 
of the masses.

	-Fringe Ryder-