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The Bill of Rights was ratified on this day in 1791. Arguably the Founders should have been more specific in certain regards, but the Ninth and Tenth Amendments should have cleared up any questions. However, these Amendments have been pretty well disregarded as not having any effect or bearing on anything, and most of the others have been manipulated to have little effect as well.

For more on the Bill of Rights and its celebration visit these links:
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/borday/
http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-bor-07.htm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory49.html


Surprisingly, the President has even issued a proclamation.
I say surprisingly as the Bill of Rights seems to be largely ignored and chipped away by the fed.gov in general.

Hopefully this trend reverses.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy

This just came to my attention. I don't keep as up to date with Slashdot news as I used to.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/65213,hushmail-turns-out-to-be-anything-but.aspx

Hushmail uses PGP encyption but apparently what allowed such a thing to become a news issue is in the way their system works, and the fact that a court order was involved.

Phil Zimmerman defends Hushmail in their actions, see: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/pgp-creator-def.html

This also does not indicate a vulnerability in PGP. I have seen it stated that Hushmail had the private keys which enabled the snooping and that the Java process used puts the correspondence to the server side in unencrytped form. I don't know really what process allowed it, but one would think that any implementation of PGP that was not fully in control of the user could be compromised in a way such as this.