Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!andrew From: andrew@stc.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information. Message-ID: <1065@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 14:25:33 EST Article-I.D.: bute.1065 Posted: Tue Nov 18 14:25:33 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 22:31:40 EST References: <1176@hoptoad.uucp> <7239@utzoo.UUCP> <437@spdcc.UUCP> <362@petrus.UUCP> <389@cdx39.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@stc.UUCP (Andrew Macpherson) Organization: STC Telecoms, Harlow Technical Center, England CM20 2DE. Lines: 23 In article <389@cdx39.UUCP> wegrzyn@cdx39.UUCP (Chuck Wegrzyn) writes: | While everyone has been discussing whether or not there are export controls, | no one has forward the notion that it doesn't matter. Everyone has some amount | of conscience, and it should come into play in determining what is done. Laws | and policies that are stupid and useless ought to be violated. After all, the | right of civil disobedience is an American right. Is this in your bill of rights? I'm surprised. More to the point however I must disagree with your premise that disobaying an unacceptable law will cause its repeal. More effective is the view of the long-time punch columnist, and MP AP Herbert... To achieve its repeal a law must be scrupulously ENFORCED, the resulting public outcry is the only catylist to legislation that can possibly be effective. references: Uncommon Law and More Uncommon Law AP Herbert, Methuen & Co. -- Regards, Andrew Macpherson. {backbone}!ukc!stc!andrew "Sometimes a majority simply means all the fools are on one side" --- Christian Science Monitor