Jason wrote:
> 
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > >I am first generation American.
> >
> > You make some good points.  There are benefits to privacy.  Are they enough
> > to surmount the burdens?  I don't know.  There is a right answer, I guess.
> > But I suppose that it is not truth that will reign here.  Rather, I suspect
> > popular opinion/Congressional opinion.  It's interesting that no one (that I
> > have seen yet) has made a constitutional argument here.  Some say privacy is
> > guaranteed by the constitution guarantees privacy. That could have been a
> > fun one.
> 
> Yes, that is true.
> 
> Some agencies have even gone so far as to classify encryption as a
> munition, in order to prevent its export, in which case I think a US
> citizens right to own it should also be protected under the 2nd
> amendment as well...

so I have the right to posess guns and encryption tools AND USEM for my
own protection.  Comitting a crime with one rases the severity of the
incident.  Is that it then?  What happens if they succeed in banning
guns then?

 EBo --