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Just another government fuckover: New crypto regulations
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books are and have been protected prior to the US Constitution.
one can presume books with crypto source code would be protected
accordingly; one Federal judge (Patel in SF) has ruled source code
is protected under freedom of speech and therefore can be published;
yet another judge in the Washington area has ruled it is not. There
is no question the feds will appeal Patel's ruling in the Ninth
Circuit (known to be pro rights in general, but difficult to
predict). eventually it will go to the US Supreme Court.
my personal opinion is the Supreme Court will rule against it
using a rationale that the actual source code sections of a book can
be classified as can any other intellectual property under the
National Security Act. Secondly, they will not consider that form of
speech an inalienable right.
I had my rounds with the bastards years ago, no fucking humour
whatsoever, and prone to use the IRS to enforce what the courts
could not afford to enforce due to the requirements of disclosure in
the courtroom at the time (which have since been plugged); and if
that does not work, set you up for financial fraud, fraud by wire,
or dope. Today dope is the perfect charge; it has been whipped into
a frenzy by the feds and their CIA infiltrated media. let me assure
any doubters the real extent of terror which the spooks can apply.
the US Government has not been a legal government for years; it
is a private club which can be bought, and its services sold to the
highest bidder. It is a collection of whores who are part of a
cabal of the very rich and powerful; it is totally unaccountable
to the public it represents. Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the bombing of
their own federal building in Oklahoma City in order to scare Joe
Couch Potato into giving up personal freedoms for security are
perfect examples of a government drunk on it owns powers. Just like
Oswald, they have a perfect patsy with the defendants in OKC.
P.J. O'Rourke states it correctly:
"And the Clinton administration launched an attack
on people in Texas because those people were
religious nuts with guns.
Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns."
O'Rourke also said:
"Giving money and power to the government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys"
and there is no better example than the cocaine stoned, reckless
mentality of Bill Clinton.
an important fact to keep in mind in US judicial review: few of
the judges can be relied on 1) to resist pressure from the Feds and
2) to take the rights of the people seriously and as 'inalienable
rights.' this may sound pessimistic and cynical, but the courts
have been sliding, in some cases rather quickly, to a position that
echoes the UN Bill of Rights:
the UN's "International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights" (ICCR): Article 18 states that "everyone shall
have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion" but specifies that "freedom to manifest one's
religions or beliefs may be subject only to such
limitations as are prescribed by law and necessary..."
in other words, I do not think we will see the feds permit the
use of books to export cryptography. this almost becomes irrelevant
outside the academic world in the provisions of the regs which
effectively block hardware or software products and in effect seem
to cut off the loophole of US companies funding overseas operations
and importing the results, etc. the new regs basically ban it all
ways. and the new regs are not the supposedly improved and friendly
versions promised --they are draconian.
books are an intellectual 'solution' to the problem. the real
problem is the hardware. in order to negate governments and their
virtually stated intentions of blocking our inalienable freedoms,
particularly freedom of speach, we must be able to distribute
universal crypto worldwide, and be able to improve it as the shadow
governments of the various spook shows improve their ability to
break our code.
this last round on the ITARs blew out distribution. asking
visitors to your web sites if they are U.S. citizens is not going to
be sufficient for Bubba's goons: Janet Reno and Jamie Gorlich.
the only real solution is guerilla warfare; anonymous
distribution; overseas' establishment of clearing houses for updates
and source code.
freedom of information is just that simple; there are no
compromises. Patrick Henry said:
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death."
publish, publish, and civil disobedience. Patrick Henry used
handbills.
knowledge is knowledge --get it in the public domain, and
in the public's hands even if you must go door to door like a
fuller brush salesman... but your product is free and it is for
their freedom.
don't waste your time getting out the vote; get out there and
fight. contribute.
if you do not have the balls to do it, you are not for freedom.
the only natural cure for corrupt government is bright sunshine.
and a rope.
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