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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: An interesting message from SECURITY-DIGEST@RUTGERS
Message-ID: <1415@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 17:26:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1415
Posted: Sat Oct 17 17:26:51 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:48:22 EDT
References: <7449@reed.UUCP> <8746@utzoo.UUCP> <471@auscso.UUCP> <4623@videovax.Tek.COM>
Organization: My Etch-A-Sketch runs X-Windows
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Keywords: NSA, DES, STU-III
Summary: Supreme Beenie

In article <4623@videovax.Tek.COM>, stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice) writes:
> In article <5416@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, James Moore
> 
> Please note that the Supreme Court has ruled on this issue in the past
> and does not agree with you.

	They're just just humans, too, y'know. The supreme court is the final
arbiter of justice in this land, but I do not think you are correct in your
assumption that the supreme court is not possibly fallible. A judge, be (s)he
human or otherwise will never be able to embody a platonic ideal of "justice".
You can place your faith in kings and elected judges - I suspect the driving
force that was originally behind America did NOT.

	You have confused POWER with justice. The government can do what it
wants to its people because it CAN. Don't be so STUPID as to argue that the
fact that a branch of the government authorized another branch of the
government to rape its people's privacy makes it RIGHT !

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
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