On 2005-01-08T12:54:25-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > >What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious
That was scarcasm. > >psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards who named it. > >It doesn't so much matter that it's obvious. > > Somehow, I don't think the bastards were hoping for the kind of > "Patriotism" I have in mind: Large caliber guns to protect our > constitutional freedoms, or at least to make it damn costly for individuals > to carry out orders trying to take them away. It's the socially conservative public at large who have fallen prey to the association between the PATRIOT act and patriotism. I did not intend to suggest that you or most other cypherpunks members have. -- "War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free." -Heraclitus 53
