Glad everyone feels that way about our Constitutional guarantees. Especially the part about the "preserving our freedoms against an external threat". I assume the same goes for the Second Amendment? WH Kuo, Jimmy wrote: >"When your fist meets my nose." > >Not quite "never." But not too far away either. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Crispin Cowan >To: Shaun Savage >Cc: CRIME >Sent: 6/8/03 2:52 PM >Subject: Re: CRIME Privacy Vs Security > >Shaun Savage wrote: > > > >>Senator Wyden fights for privacy! >> >>The question I ask the group is "At what point does security out weigh >> >> > > > >>the privacy and freedoms that America should offer?" >> >> > >IMHO, approximately never. The only purpose in compromising our freedoms > >is to preserve our freedoms from an external threat. This is almost >never required, and almost always a mistake. And since the fall of the >Soviet Union, there basically is no external threat to our freedoms, >only to marginal amounts of property and small numbers of civilians. > >In no way what so ever are infringements on our liberties such as the >odious PATRIOT act justified by the meagre threat imposed by Osama bin >Laden and his shabby ilk. > >Crispin > > > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/08/MN253740.DTL > >Wyden is way down at the bottom. Good for Wyden; glad to see him showing > >some backbone against the administrations ham-fisted grabs at our civil >liberties. > >Crispin > > > -- ====================================================================== Warren Harrison, EIC/IEEE Software Magazine warren@private Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~warren Portland State University PHONE: 503-725-3108 Portland, OR 97207-0751 FAX: 503-725-3211
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