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This whole thing is a straw man.

It is we the people who should be dismantling the security state, in order to solve the terror/war problem - we sure as hell don't need career experts dictating this. The public truly needs to fight back on this.

Crypto is Math.

Broken crypto is broken Math. But Math is broken anyway, because we can't really stop people using Math to hurt us.

After Crypto being banned, what next? The Golden Rule?

We can't have Math, because "Terrorism".

The only solution is an open and honest society, in which sufficient resources are applied, at the human being level, to ensure that terrorism doesn't happen.

Like, we could deploy battleships with bombs all we want, but those same battleships would go a long way towards actually making peace in the world, by healing it instead.

But, we "can't do that", apparently, because "Threats/Force/Terror are more important".

Let we, the people, continue to use crypto to undo the need for such power structures as the NSA, and all the rest of the spooks ..




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