jobs at all levels of government swelled by 36 percent and prison
# jobs by 86 percent during the Reagan years alone, while overall government
# employment rose by only 16 percent. Federal prosecutors doubled under Bush.
# For those in the enforcement trades, the War on Drugs was boom time.
#
# For everybody else, the period was marked by a commensurate increase in
# police intrusion. There are rarely victims or witnesses in drug crimes.
#
# Drug use usually takes place in private, and drug dealing occurs between
# a willing seller and a willing buyer.
#
# So to wage the Drugs War an expanding army of police had to use ever more
# wiretaps, dog sniffs, snitches, warrantless searches, surveillance, and
# undercover operations.
#
# The administration elected on a promise to remove government from people's
# lives had turned the country---in one law professor's phrase---into a
# "society of suspects."
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War #2 - Guns
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# www.gunowners.org
#
# The Police even pointed a machine gun at the
# head of Mrs. Kuriatnk's six-year-old daughter.
Actually, I think the government says 'because organized crime would use
cryptography'; but criminals with guns is the generalization.
If you were a criminal, would you select cryptography that is 'Key Recovery'
("GAK" Government Access to Keys) compliant?
I don't think so.
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