From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:24 +0000
Subject: Re: back to the pigeons


> Date:          Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:05:23 +0100
> To:            "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
> From:          Erik <erikb-AT-agoranet.be>
> Subject:       Re: Welcome to new listeners
> Cc:            <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>

> At 13:16 +0000 02-02-1999, Andy wrote:
> >Did anyone else catch this in the Irish Times?
> 
> i doubt it. Not many of us read the Irish Times ;-)
> 
> But it's true : tehre is an increasing pressure on civil an dpersonal
> liberties on the internet (and in the streets : more and more camera's make
> their appearance in big and small towns in Belgium. And officially the
> Belgium government wants her citizens to deposit their encryption key.

Given your governments' record on uncovering paedophile rings and 
mass child murderers, Belgium will probably be the safest place to be 
in spite of this.

> I'm nit sure if it is already a rule of law, but at the least that's 
>the gist
> of their thinking. What happens on Belgian scale will sooner or later
> happen on european scale. So prpepare for more refugees and asylumsekers to
> be deported with violence out of Fortress Europe.

I guess the only way will be to revert to the carrier-pigeon, except 
the trigger-happy carnivores across the pond will probably mistake 
them for a food opportunity.

>AS