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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Getting molested by the S.S.
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.041148.18128@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 91 04:11:48 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.103206.806@ulkyvx.bitnet> <1333@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> <1991Mar10.073726.25320@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1991Mar10.073726.25320@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Yet is there really any difference between an armed mugger taking my
>computer and the government doing so without due process?  According to the
>Bill of Rights, there is not.  They are both thieves.
>
	No.  The mugger is doing less of a crime than the government.
The difference is that all the mugger is violating is your property and
some legislation.  The government is violating your privacy and the US
Constitution, the essence <supposedly> of our government.


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