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In article <fringeDADH1x.Htz@netcom.com>, fringe@netcom.com (Fringe Ryder)
wrote:

> J.M. Ivler (ivler@crl.com) wrote:
> : hehehe... don't anyone tell him, but EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in the 
> : United States Senate just voted YES on SB652... you know, the 
> : Telecommunications bill with the Exon Amendment in it... the one that 
> : censors (or attempts to take away all the first amendment protections) 
> : Internet traffic.
> 
> : You can keep the guns, but you just can't talk about anything "we" don't 
> : like... Gotta love the dinks that think that one side is somehow better 
> : than the other...
> 
> I guess I'm just following this more closely than you.  Al Gore has been 
> LEADING the fight against encryption and Freeh has been on the front line.
> 
> That said, my point was that the idiot who made it sound like Republicans
> are encryption's enemy was simply not paying attention.  The Democrats are
> actually worse, but both are bad.  And the Libertarians don't hold enough
> offices to make any difference yet.

There wa a post in ca.politics with a list of 17 senators who voted
against it. 2 were rep and 15 were dem. Boxer (D) and Feinstein (D) both
voted for it and Exon (D) sponsered it. Sure sounds like another evil
Republican plot to me! How cleverly they got a democrat to sponser the
bill.

The problem is congress is in a panic because ~200 people died in a
terrorist attacks in the US this year. It's total overreaction. That's
less than a typical airline disaster and 2 orders of magnitude less than
the annual carnage from automobile accidents (about 44,000 a year down
from a peak of about 58,000 before they lowered the speed limits).
Although the OK bombing was repugnant and shocking, it does not warrant
the reaction of trading freedom for safety. Besides, prosecutions of
obscenity violations should be against those who willfully commit crimes.

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Kip Haggerty
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