November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Monkeywrenching
by Nomen Nescio 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Tim May writes: > Several of us were in the Sierras this past weekend for a training > session on weapons use, explosives, terrorism measures, and methods for > monkeywrenching the U.S. government so as to paralyze its police state > moves. First, this is probably not true. Tim May often uses hyperbole, exaggeration and satire to make his points. There may or may not have been a gathering but it is unlikely to have been for the purpose of learning how to be a terrorist. Second, training in such matters would be useless and counterproductive. There is no point in patriotic Americans learning to use weapons and explosives for the purpose of terrorism. Any attempt to use such tools would injure or kill people and lead to an even greater loss of our remaining civil libertires. It would weaken the position of those who are fighting to preserve our rights, bring more military occupation of American cities, and produce more government surveillance. Third, "monkeywrenching" may actually be a positive strategy, if employed intelligently. The idea would be to make the government occupation more expensive and difficult, and to promote public distrust and resentment of the government's efforts to expand its control. It is however important that the provocation doesn't go too far and trigger a public relations backlash. Small steps must be taken at this point while people still overwhelmingly support government actions. Of course subtlety is not exactly a Tim May trademark. (At least, not the bloodthirsty blowhard of today. Where is the man who came up with the idea of Big Brother Inside stickers?). Let us hope that cooler heads are involved in the planning of any such effort. An earlier version of this message was sent but has not yet appeared. Here are some additional thoughts. A good example of monkeywrenching can be found at the article posted earlier, http://www.keepandbeararms.com/angel/articles/consterrorist.htm. This shows an apparently legitimate flyer from the "Phoenix FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force" telling people whom they should watch out for. It includes people who "make numerous references to the US constitution", people who are "'defenders' of the US constitution against federal government and the UN", people who attempt to "police the police" and so on. These will already raise red flags even among mainstream Americans. How easy it would be to make an altered version of this flyer which shades just a bit more into questionable territory. People who object to surveillance by the government; people who oppose stationing soldiers in public places; people who refuse to pledge allegiance to the flag; people who won't show their identity papers on request; there are all kinds of dangerous individuals out there. The slope is slippery, and it would be easy to slide just a little ways farther down. Printing copies of such a flyer and leaving them in public places would be a good way to get people thinking about how much they are giving up. It might even be possible to get a know-nothing police officer to join in the distribution, someone whose authoritarian political perspective will make him blind to the satire.

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Bloody Crisis - The Movie
by themovie＠bloodycrisis.com 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

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The Recognized Name in Data Security
by Eric Cordian 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Here's an exerpt from a little story in Wired News this morning about secure data centers. I don't know about you, but having my data guarded by "Osama Arafat" would make me feel all safe, warm, and cozy. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48104,00.html ... Q9, a data center in Toronto, uses both proximity cards and fingerprint scanners to access the computer room, which is entered through a bullet-proof revolving door that allows only one person through at a time. "The whole idea is that someone can't force another person to let them in," said Q9 CEO Osama Arafat. "It's just part of the due diligence that people demand." ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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resend, lne problems
by Declan McCullagh 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

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14 Nov '01

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by Bobby Bob 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

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[consim-l] Navajo Code Talkers (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 00:11:42 -0500 From: Allan Rothberg <arothber(a)optonline.net> To: Consim -L <consim-l(a)halisp.net> Subject: [consim-l] Navajo Code Talkers All, I tripped over this URL in today's local paper. It is a dictionary of the code: www.history.navy.mil/afqs/fa61-2.htm Allan

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Re: Sedition
by Declan McCullagh 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Yep, hundreds. Cato has a staff of about 100 alone. IHS/Mercatus probably close to the same. CEI and IJ are smaller. But DC is a big town, and a few hundred people (many of whom are support staff and not "analysts") are vastly outnumbered by the bureaucratelia. -Declan On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:45:09AM -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 05:13 PM 11/13/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Faustine wrote: > > > It sure is. That's why I think (and have always openly said, here and > > > everywhere) we need more pro-freedom policy analysts in Washington. > > > >Of course, if you're a hardcore libertarian ("abolish all > >unconstitutional federal agencies, and that's most of 'em! let's > >revert back to the firearms laws we had 150 years ago!"), then you > >don't get listened to. > > > >Having more "pro freedom policy analysts" in Washington won't > >accomplish much until other things change too. > > > >-Declan > > Anyway, don't we have dozens (hundreds?) of pro-freedom policy analysts in > DC. Between CATO and all the rest. Haven't the commies been complaining > about our massive numbers "funded by the corporations". > > DCF

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by Jim Choate 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

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Public Servants Going After "Constitutional Terrorists"?
by Julian Morrison 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/angel/articles/consterrorist.htm

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