[SteveH]

In yet another late-breaking development, U.S. Democrat Senators Diane Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and moderate Republican Senator John McCain released a joint statement calling for bipartisan support of their anti-terrorist "computer show loophole closure" bill, calling on Congress and the President to abandon right-wing Republican party reservations towards "bringing to an end the terrible costs to society of certain extremist elements" from using the Internet to spread "hate communication" across state and international boundaries and arranging for unregulated sales of illegal subroutines, military munitions-grade algorithms and NIC cards" with attached "crypto" coprocessors that have already been determined to be "contrary to the interests of the WTO and United Nations".

"It is obvious that these people harbor dangerous, terrorist tendencies and will require an expansion of funding into existing and new federal agencies to monitor and help combat the burgeoning problems of renegade computation and communication," a spokesperson for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a separate release in support of the new bill. The bill would make felonies trafficing of "late evening special" computer related products without a license, an "instant check" and a three day waiting period for transactions.

Attempts to reach representatives for the so-called "free software" lobby, GNU, for comment and objections by press time were unsuccessful.

[Centurion2000]

bringing to an end the terrible costs to society of certain extremist elements" from using the Internet to spread "hate communication" across state and international boundaries and arranging for unregulated sales of illegal subroutines, military munitions-grade algorithms and NIC cards" with attached "crypto" coprocessors that have already been determined to be "contrary to the interests of the WTO and United Nations

Lovely, and in 20 years this probably wont be a joke.