Re: what's a weapon? (fwd)

["Wayne H. Allen" <whallen@capitalnet.com>]

At 13:33 96.07.29 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
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>Drawing an analogy with encryption and US ITAR, a poster reported that
>A piper is being taken to court for practicing on Hampstead Heath,
>which has a by-law forbidding music. Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied
>the charge. He claims he wasn't playing a musical instrument, but
>practicing with a weapon. In 1746 in England, bagpipes were declared to
>be instruments of war, not musical weapons, and a subsequent Act of
>Parliament specifically stated that they were weapons.
>
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    If you have ever heard the pipes being practiced you'll know why.
Wayne H.Allen
whallen@capitalnet.com
Pgp key at www.capitalnet.com/~whallen