On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:38:23PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote: > > Yes. Though these days they have Emergency Powers for everything, > > and chronic, continually extended 'Emergencies'. > > I've always enjoyed the regular declarations of emergencies required > to keep the encryption export control regime active. > > If an emergency exists for decades, can it still be properly called one?
I guess so, if it's still "emerging." A difficult birth, perhaps. -- gbn
