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 --