At 21:52 2/17/2000 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>Most people who work for governments are ordinary people and not the
>facist thugs of your bizare fantasies.
True. Although good people can do bad things, especially if few incentives
are there to do otherwise.
>As I said, the civil rights issue had no traction since there was an
>inherent
>contradiction. We all knew that the export control regs. were inffective.
>So how could an ineffective regulation be a civil right threat?
False. Take the CDA, a likely ineffective regulation had it stayed around.
Still, the possibility of prosecution for speaking your mind is still a
"civil rights" threat, no matter how nice you make it sound.
In reality, Prof. Bernstein would not be on the top of a prosecutor's to-do
list. But in theory it's still possible, no matter how "ineffective" the
regulation.
>Thats why the competition issue was important, it gave the issue urgency.
Both were, and are, necessary. Different constituencies in DC respond to
different arguments.
-Declan
