Below, a friend of mine, a libertarian/conservative high-school junior (hence the first name only and a hushmail address, given the political climate these days...), who is already a nationally-ranked debater, gave me the following heads-up about next year's national high-school debate topic, by way of asking for advice on researching it. I'll help him any way I can directly and under separate cover, and I'm sure you can use his hushmail address as well as I can if you're interested in the same :-), but I thought I'd pass this along, noting that, hopefully, there will be a few more cryptoanarchists graduating highschool next year than this year... :-). Cheers, RAH (Who was in NFL himself once, just barely, and a long time ago...) --- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:10:30 -0700 (PST) Subject: Next year's topic To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: U I have a problem. Next year's resolution for policy debate reads something like this: "The United States Federal Government shall establish a policy to significantly increase the protection of privacy in one or more of the following areas: Employment, Medical Records, Consumer Infromation, Search and Seizure." This presents a broad list of ideas to me, but getting information on them is difficult. If you have any ideas and know of places I could get evidence about them, tell me. I'm hoping I can have something written by the time I go to camp next year, and if I can it'll be rather helpful at the tournament. It also helps if I can claim some sort of huge advantage, such as US leadership (or hegemony, as it is known to us) or liberty, rights, etc. Thanks. Brad IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages. Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
