Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-18 Thread Petro
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:55:00AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 9 Dec 2002 at 9:17, Tim May wrote: > > Anyone in the U.S. can be declared an "enemy combatant" and > > vanished away from lawyers, habeas corpus, the 6th Amendment, > > and any semblance of the system of liberty we sor

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-18 Thread Petro
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: > > Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a > > horse, and a rope. > There aren't enough horses :-) Unlike bullets, horses and rope are reusable. More expensive up

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 05:21:43PM -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > I was just wondering the same thing myself. Since when is EPIC not > cypherpunk-friendly? See my reasonably long post in this thread and Tim's nicely-reasoned response... -Declan

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15 Dec 2002, David Wagner wrote: > Declan McCullagh wrote: > >Also epic.org (not a cypherpunk-friendly organization, > >but it does try to limit law enforcement surveillance) [...] > > Is the cypherpunks movement truly so radicalized that it is > not willing to count even EPIC among its friend

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-10 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:37 AM, Lucky Green wrote: James A. Donald wrote: In general wars lead to a major temporary reduction in liberty, but a smaller permanent reduction in liberty. Unfortunately the war on terror will probably never end, so there will be no recovery. I heard s

RE: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-10 Thread Lucky Green
James A. Donald wrote: > In general wars lead to a major temporary reduction in liberty, > but a smaller permanent reduction in liberty. Unfortunately > the war on terror will probably never end, so there will be no > recovery. I heard some governmental official on the radio the other day (I p

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Tim May
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: In a state where Crypto is not resisted (OK, there probably aren't a lot of these...perhaps in Europe or Canada?), Crypto "defaults" to the above. You really need to get up to speed on this issue if you think either the nations o

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Tim May
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:55 AM, James A. Donald wrote: So far this has only been applied to people who are obviously hostile muslim terrorist wannabees, but the program will be steadily expanded. Indeed, part of the homeland security act already aims at people who make cartridges (relo

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2002 at 9:17, Tim May wrote: > Anyone in the U.S. can be declared an "enemy combatant" and > vanished away from lawyers, habeas corpus, the 6th Amendment, > and any semblance of the system of liberty we sort of had at > one time. So far this has only been applied to people who a

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
"It's mildly amusing to watch your months-long transition from newcomer to believer that crypto provides the tools for sabotaging the State and protecting real liberty." Well, this is for me not an easy issue. Amerika has always had a hard-on for fascism (as long as it was in the service of "fr

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Tim May
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:56 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: "Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a horse, and a rope." Damn. If it gets to the point where I'm a terrorist because some local warlord doesn't like me (or thinks I disrespect his authority), then

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Anonymous
Tyler Durden said: > In a way, the potential and impending truth of Tim May's statement is for a > me a motivator to continue to promote strong crypto, ubiquitous Wi-Fi, > "BlackNet", and so on. Hopefully it won't come down to the above. It already has. And the hell with the horses -- tie th

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
"Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a horse, and a rope." Damn. If it gets to the point where I'm a terrorist because some local warlord doesn't like me (or thinks I disrespect his authority), then "might makes right" is all that will be left. In a way, the pot

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-08 Thread Mark Renouf
jet wrote: At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote: http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441 PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC One major issue is these days, the laws have become so incredibly complicat

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-07 Thread jet
At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote: >http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441 > >PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL >Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC Is there any other coverage of this? -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff,

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-07 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: > > Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a > horse, and a rope. There aren't enough horses :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-07 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 05:48 PM, Myers W. Carpenter wrote: http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441 PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in