Re: Extremely Disappointing: Political Cryptography

[Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>]

On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:

> At 12:14 AM 6/20/97 -0400, Charles Platt wrote:
> >I'm not saying I _want_ an agency making decisions for us; only that it 
> >would be slightly less hideously exasperating than our present situation, 
> >where technoliterates are being ruled by technoilliterates.
> 
> 

I'm not sure anymore who wrote what, but I think the idea
of having another three-letter agency involved with this is
very dangerous.

Lets take the almost unlimited abuses of the FDA, BATF, IRS etc.  These
agencies have been assigned law enforcement powers by proxy.  The
laws they enforce are administrative law.  There is nothing to
stop them from declaring administrative regs and then calling out
the jack-booted nazi's to enforce them.

Tell me this isn't true.

Plenty of cases of the FDA and BATF doing just that.

Have a better one,

Jim Burnes