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echo: askacop
to: CHRISTOPHER COYNE
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-19 16:44:00
subject: Re: Censorship

Hi Christopher, as you were just saying about Re: Censorship....
CC> RT> CC> RT> You can say that you have complete trust in your government?  
I
CC> RT> don't.
CC> RT> CC> 
CC> RT> CC> I didn't say that.  
CC> 
CC> RT> You indicated it by stating that the only people who should have
CC> RT> access to plans on how to build a bomb would either be military
CC> RT> (federal or state government) or bomb squads (local, state or federal
CC> RT> law enforcment).
CC> Yeah, if you want to put it that way.  Who else has any 
CC> business knowing how to kill millions of people with one 
CC> shot?
Millions only if it is nuclear or biological.  The plans for nuclear
have been in public libraries for years as have the basics for delivery
systems.  What is controlled is the substances such as plutonium, etc..
  Now if the bomb is simply high explosive, any farm boy knows how to
make a very large ANFO bomb and they have had that knowledge for years.
 That knowledge is necessary on almost any farm that has stumps.  :^)
CC> RT> Then why would you want no one in the public to know how to make a
CC> RT> bomb?  Today's public may become tomorrow's soldiers.
CC> 
CC> RT> CC> Read my example to Charles 
CC> RT> CC> about carjacking and it may help out with this argument.
CC> Good, and when they become soldiers, they can learn how to 
CC> make a bomb.  Right now, I don't have a death wish.
Nor do I.  Just remember that it is not the knowledge itself that is
dangerous any more than guns cause crime or diet coke causes obesity.
RD 
sandman@azstarnet.com - A newspaper ISP - Arizona Daily Star
sandman@brassroots.org - A no compromise gun rights organization.
http://www.azstarnet.com/~sandman
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