Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling Message-ID: <48916@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 26 Mar 91 17:58:27 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: estelle.ee.udel.edu In article dirish@solitude.math.utah.edu (Dudley Irish) writes: >I believe that this ruling is mainly concerned with expectation of >privacy as related to search and seizure by the government, but for >those of you who thought that your financial record was your property >it is food for thought. This exemplifies one of the things I see as a problem in our legal system. Precident becomes law, and bad precident set for expediency or pragamatism of the moment is very difficult to overturn. The example of the farmer who fed his own family with his own wheat grown outside the door being in violation of federal interstate commerce-based laws is another example. Income tax (originally started to support a war) is another example. Paper money (also to support a war) and thus arbitrary inflation is another example. At least the war-on-non-commercial-drugs has a built in time-limit; I wonder if it will do any good. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee, Amigas ----- +=+=+ My time is very valuable, but unfortunately only to me +=+=+