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Re: Clipper Chip report on 700 Club today (Wednesday)



writes Phil Karn:
>
>Of course, the Religious Right is at odds with the current government,
>what with talk of using the federal racketeering laws against
>anti-abortion demonstrators.  So perhaps they can be forgiven for
>their current anti-government stance.  Their tune might well change if
>they ever succeed in overturning Roe V Wade. Imagine their glee
>turning to horror when they discover that those satanic pro-choice
>people are using encryption to coordinate *their* protests and perhaps
>even to coordinate travel by women seeking abortions to places where
>it is still legal. :-)
>

I wonder if they know that the idea was developed during a republican
administration?

>And there's supreme irony in the right to encryption and the right to
>abortion both being founded in the same basic concept: personal
>privacy.  It all depends on whose ox is being gored, I guess.
>
>
>Phil
>
>

-nate

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