Pubdate: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 Date: 08/02/1998 Source: Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) Author: Chris Buors Website: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/freepress/ The privacy commissioner, Bruce Phillips warns us we are moving closer to a police state. He is too late. In an effort to protect us from the evil scourge of (some) drugs, politicians have already sacrificed hard fought for rights on the Prohibition alter. Warrantless searches, confiscation of property, and interception of private telephone calls are now commonplace. All police state tatics that have not detered one single sale. Now encryption software sales will be sacrificed as drug warriors reach ever deeper to justify their own exsistance. Do we really need this expensive intrusion into our private lives? Do away with prohibition and embrace freedom. Chris Buors