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marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault) writes:

>In article <1992Oct27.231241.23112@shearson.com> 
>(Perry E. Metzger) writes: 

>        ....

>> Given all this, its obvious that unless we work as hard as possible to
>> preserve whats left all will be lost. I cannot encourage people to
>> oppose this growing movement to destroy what is left of our rights
>> strongly enough. The fact that such a prominent cryptographer as Dr.
>> Dorothy Denning would come out in favor of a proposal like handing the

>        ....

>        Sometimes it truly is a joy to be living north of the 49th. On
>        a day when many of us are celebrating the recent saving of our
>        Charter of Rights and Freedoms from being watered down by a
>        venal bunch of self-interested politicians, I would like to
>        ask two questions:

>     1. Given that the NSA has classified secret codes as armament,
>        doesn't your Second Amendment right to bear arms therefore
>        also guarantee your right to use secret codes?


	The right to bear arms does not extend to the right to posses
	a surface to air missle.  The courts have ruled that the Second
	Amendment can have reasonable restraints placed on it.  What
	is reasonable is for a court to decide.


>     2. This "trusted third party", the Justice Department -- aren't
>        these the people tromping all over everybody's rights and
>        resisting political accountability in the Inslaw affair?

	I don't think that the author of the "trusted third party"
	idea envisioned the Justice Department fulfilling that role.

>        Just thought I'd ask.

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