jwarren@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Warren) (09/17/90)
[Please post & circulate]
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE SUPPORTS ELECTRONIC FREEDOM & PRIVACY
Folks, we have a good chance of having a **State Governor** who
(a) understands and favors technology, and -- more important --
(b) has signed and released the following statement (he just faxUed
a signed copy to me; IUll fax it to anyone who requests it).
-- Jim Warren, 9/16/90 [jwarren@well.sf.ca.us, or 415-851-7075/voice]
STATEMENT BY JIM GALLAWAY, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF NEVADA
I am the Republican candidate for Governor of the State of
Nevada. I have been in the private telecomm industry for most of
20 years, and have been a principal in several telecomm and
computer start-ups. I understand, support, and have practiced
technological innovation.
My wife and I have known Jim Warren for well over a decade. He
has outlined some of the current issues about which owners and
users of systems for e-mail, BBS, teleconferencing, electronic
publishing and personal computing are deeply concerned.
These are my positions, relative to some of the recent law
enforcement practices by some government agents:
1. Government responses to alleged misdemeanors and crimes must
be no more than comparable to the seriousness of the wrong-doings.
2. Simple electronic trespass without harm must be treated as
any other simple trespass. It does not justify armed raids on teenagers,
forced entry of private homes, nor seizure of telephone
handsets, answering machines, computer printers, published
documentation, audio tapes and the like.
3. The notion that equipment can be RarrestedS and held
inaccessible to its owner, without promptly charging the owner with
a crime, is absolutely unacceptable. The practice of holding
seized equipment and data for months or years is a serious penalty
that must be imposed only by a court of law and only after a fair
and public hearing and judicial finding of guilt.
4. Teleconferencing and BBS systems must have the same
protections against suppression, prior restraint, search or seizure
as do newspapers, printing presses and public meeting places.
5. The contents of electronic-mail and of confidential or
closed teleconferencing exchanges must have the same protections
against surveillance or seizure as does First Class Mail in a U.S.
Post Office, and private discussions among a group in a home or boardroom.
As Governor of the State of Nevada I will vigorously support all
of these positions -- both statewide and nationally.
/s/ Jim Gallaway, candidate for the Governor of Nevada