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In article <4288@well.UUCP> rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes:

>Steve Rice writes at length about and against various arguments which
>have been put forth here essentially saying that the government does
>not have the right to invade people's privacy (by listening in or
>intercepting their phone calls or communications).  Steve says in
>essence that since the Supreme Court has said that they DO have the
>right, then they in fact have it.

etc.  etc. ...

I believe that it's a moot point as to whether any governmental agency
or institution has the "right" to invade my privacy (or to do anything
else, for that matter).  Some people will say it does, some will say
it doesn't, and we can go on and on splitting hairs about the "true"
meaning of the word "right" and as we do this, there are forces at
work undermining our privacy and freedom.

My opinion is that I do not want the government of anyone else to
invade my privacy, and whether they have the "right" to do it or not,
I want to encourage everyone to strenuously oppose any efforts on the
part of the gov't to do this.  There are all sorts of pressure that
can be brought to bear to severely reduce the government's
intrusiveness: political, legal, free-market, media, etc. etc.

I say we stop quibbling about whether it's a "right" or not and just
get out there and fight for our privacy.

By the way, this isn't directed at you, Bob ... it's just that your posting
inspired me.  I think we're basically in agreement.

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Lloyd Zusman, Master Byte Software, Los Gatos, California
"When your software gets hard, go Master Byte."
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