Re: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usage by visitors?

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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


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