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- From: skimmel@amex-trs.com (Steve Kimmel)
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.045738.26446@amex-trs.com>
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- References: <1992Nov11.214859.26168@adobe.com> <lg5gu8INN1m9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1duqtuINNor2@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:57:38 GMT
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- In article <1duqtuINNor2@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- >williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
- >
- >> As for registering keys...why do law enforcement officials think
- >>they have a right to know what I am saying to another person. It seems
- >>like this is an infringement on *freedom* of expression -- if my expression
- >>to another person *must* be subject to monitoring, is it really free?
- >
- >Certainly when they framed the constution, they did not mean "free
- >speach" as "You can keep any secret you want to keep". It means that I
- >can in public say things and not be brought to court for saying them.
-
- Err...maybe he ment the 4th amendment: "The right of the people to be
- secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
- searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall
- issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and
- particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things
- to be seized."
- "Your honor, we want to fish through Mr. Drum's correspondence because he
- is known to communicate with known adgitators and subversives"
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