----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2005 6:21 pm Subject: Re: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usage by visitors? > Unfortunately, many societies operate in just that way: there is a > hugedifference between the letter of the law and enforcement. And > the law > itself is so restrictive that nobody can actually obey it in real > life.So everyone is effectively violating it to some effect, which > means that > the government (and its representatives) can selectively enforce it > against anyone who displeases it, while allowing the majority to > violatethe law without consequences. > > This principle of selective enforcement allows a government to > control a > population far more effectively than mere laws alone. Virtually all > countries engage in it to some extent, but it is far worse in some > countries than in others. For example, it's much worse in France than > it is in the United States. > > The general principle is to make sure that everyone is somehow doing > something illegal, so that anyone can be arrested and thrown in > jail if > it becomes convenient to do so. The laws are designed to guarantee > thatnobody can fully obey them, and selective enforcement keeps > the masses > from complaining about them (most people equate non-enforcement > with the > absence of a law in the first place, even though they are two very > different things). > > -- > Anthony So..., if it is true, it means that virtually all countrieas are abusing their power? What would you suggest to survive in such a condition? Regards, Benny > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf