🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec14.014118.11612@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
>If my understanding is now accurate that PGP2.x violates both the
>Munitions Act and PKP's patents, and that this violation is occasioned
>not just by use but also by possession in the U.S., then it would seem
>prudent to get it off one's U.S. computers and any U.S. net
>sites--Internet, Usenet, Fidonet, anynet. Presence on a bulletin board
>system may be just what someone needs to close down that system.

Actually, what comes to my mind is to get PGP 2.X on each and every
U.S. computer, net site, Usenet host, Fidonet, anynet - and then each
and every computer owner, net site, Fidonet, anynet could report
themselves to the Proper Authorities as illegal international arms
traders.

Is anyone familiar with the concept of "civil disobedience"?

Of course it's easy for me to say things like this.

>Finally, given my understanding, the notion that if it's uploaded all
>over the place, what can "they" do seems to betray a lack of both
>realism and ethics. Try the argument that if lots of people take
>cocaine, what can "they" do?  to see this.

If all the people who smoke marijuana would do it openly and not stop
smoking it openly even though put through the system, "they" would
either just have to simply swallow it and repeal the law or start a
civil war.  The problem is that after "they" shoot/put for life in
jail/fine $2M/hang/whatever a couple of those doing it openly the rest
will stop doing it openly.  Divide and conquer.

//Jyrki