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  1. Re:HOAX? by interiot · · Score: 1 · on Online Journal Publisher Raided by Police

    And the earth is flat.

  2. Not one of the comments above by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Clinton creates group to "address unlawful conduct" on Net

    addresses the question from a legal point of view. Instead, everybody takes an emotional perspective, including the ones who understand that this, like the proposed controls on encryption, is about something much much bigger than kiddie porn and pipe bombs. And, if there is any group which should care about this emerging issue from a let's actually look-it-up and let's get-the-facts point of view, it should be this group! I suggest that a few drop the emotional ranting and try instead to get the facts.

    The gloss requests - "perhaps a legally-qualified person can offer some thoughts [on where any President get this power to effectively make law by executive proclamation]."

    A lot of very concerned people with legal training and background have put together a compendium of law on this extremely important issue. For those disbelievers who want to review a detailed step-by-step documentation of the origin of this executive power, Dr. Gene Schroder's Report on War and Emergency Powers is as good place as any to start. Understanding the html version of the report will require tracking down each of the references, and studying them carefully. (The written version is a little more complete. And, no I am not plugging for Schroder, any more than the rest of us plug for Linus and Redhat.) Reading the full report, and understanding it, however is going to require a very open mind and a few hours of hard work, for those who care to follow in their thoroughly documented footsteps of Dr. Schroder and others.

    I know that my reference to this detailed report will arouse all the FBI mudslingers who lurk on /., but Gene Schroder's life work on Constitutuional Law is in my mind right up there with the life work of Stallman and Torvalds in respect of trying to preserve the prospect of free communication. It's is worth the effort.