December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Cypherpunks are...
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

"... probably not the well-armed, high-tech, drug-taking, survivalist, martial-arts, black-marketeering, tax-dodging, life-extensionist, freethinking, paper-tripping Discordian master criminals that a composite of archive cullings would suggest. I think they are mostly spiritually restless materialists: macho contemplatives locked into day jobs. They dream of escape -- of "vonu" (invulnerability to coercion by withdrawal from society); of the High Frontier (space colonization); of life extension to tide them over till a better day. They long for the big score. They take hope from the cyphernomicon that parade's their contempt for normal life as they portray fantastic possibilities always presented according to a patented formula of tough-minded realism. The typical C/punks reader is, I conjecture, a surrealist trapped in the body of an engineer." Still...probably most crypto-anarchists would offer a similar reply to the charge that they are utopians. Namely: what is truly utopian is to imagine that somehow the government can hold massive power without turning it to monstrous ends. As Rothbard succinctly puts it: "the man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian." Is not the whole hirstory of the 20th century an endless list of examples of governments easily breaking the weak bonds placed upon their ability to oppress and even murder as they see fit?

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login info 3
by g24956＠centrum.cz 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

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Proffr of Arabia.
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

In the much translated classic,"The 7 willows of Pissdom,"proffr of Arabia describes the crossing of the boofhead desert,the rear assault on crapaba and his capture by a Berkish May.After torture's indescribable including listening to the cenobite,el proff fools the pontius warthog into releasing him.From then on el proff takes no prisoners.His temper not improved by the loss of 2 faithful companions,el proff blows up trains containing Berks and slaughters all the occupants. A straggling column of Berks and aryan supremeists also gets wiped out.When the cypherpunk tribes finally reach damesrus,they devolve into squabbling trolls before looting the casinos and returning home.Proffr1 takes up motorbike riding even starting his own outlaw club.The road warriors.It is truly written. "My cause will continue after my death," Mir quoted proffr1 as saying. "They think they will solve this problem by killing me. It's not easy to solve this problem. This war has been spread all over the world."

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Brown Power;"more smart"The friends of Timothy May.
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Far-Right Recruiting Drive A range of racist and anti-immigrant groups are trying to turn the Sept. 11 terror attacks into a marketing tool. by Yigal Schleifer Nov.26, 2001. White supremacists like Matthew Hale are eager to use outrage over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to further their own goals. The most recent book from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been available since the beginning of this year, but only in Russian, Romanian and Serbian. That will soon change. Convinced that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have created a ripe market, Duke is rushing to provide an English version for sale on his website. "It's being released prematurely, absolutely in response to September 11 and the overwhelming demand for it," says Vincent Breeding, Duke's press secretary. The demand for Duke's tome, "Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question," may not be "overwhelming," but his eagerness to benefit from the Sept. 11 attacks does appear to be part of a growing pattern. Experts and movement members alike agree that many of America's tiny but energetic far-right groups are seizing on the terror attacks to boost recruitment and help spread their messages of hate. "Their information campaign is being stepped up, not only stepped up but altered to use the Sept. 11 attacks as a lever to change people's opinion in order to get them to come aboard," says Mark Pitcavage, national director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based organization which monitors the activity of hate groups. In the days after the attacks in New York and Washington, hate groups attempted to take advantage of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiment. Members of the World Church of the Creator, an Illinois-based white supremacist group, sought new recruits at a demonstration in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview at which police prevented a crowd of several hundred from attacking a local mosque. Matthew Hale, the 30-year-old leader of the World Church of the Creator, said his group has increased its activities since the attacks. The group has passed out fliers -- one entitled "Stop non-White Immigration," the other "Let's Stop Being Human Shields for Israel" -- in several cities in addition to Chicago. "It is true that a lot of people are not ready at this time to accept the idea of repatriating the other races, although that is still our aim," says Hale. "But we definitely feel that things are moving a lot more in that direction since September 11." Hale's World Church isn't alone. The day after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the neo-Nazi National Alliance cancelled an anti-immigration rally in Georgia to instead organize a demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington. "Like any pre-revolutionary organization throughout history, we must survive and adapt to rapidly evolving realities in the world around us," wrote one of the group's leaders in an e-mail to activists announcing the change. Meanwhile, Michael Hill, president of the ultra-conservative League of the South, posted a broadside on the group's website saying that the attacks "spring from an 'open borders' policy that has for the past four decades encouraged massive Third World immigration and thus cultural destabilization." Experts say extremist groups such as the League of the South and the World Church still boast relatively few members, their popular momentum having peaked in the mid 90's after the federal government's ill-fated sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. With their social relevance dwindling, a rightward shift in the national debate over immigration policies bodes well for the right-wing groups. That shift could be especially beneficial for less-extreme groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has long advocated such policies as the reduction of legal immigration, the close monitoring of visa holders in the US, and the use of national identity cards. "I think a lot of the ideas that they have been pushing for a long time are now being looked at seriously," says Michael Fix, director of immigration studies at the Urban Institute. Indeed, in recent weeks Bush administration officials have called for tightening controls on issuing visas to citizens of Arab countries, the Department of Justice has launched a campaign to interview thousands of people from Arab and Islamic countries in the US on various kinds of visas, and a Republican member of the House of Representatives has called for a federal commission to look into issuing national identity cards. Eric Ward, executive director of the Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity, a Seattle-based organization that tracks hate groups, says a restrictive shift in US immigration policy alone would be a major victory for anti-immigrant groups. "The goal is to try and impact national policy and prepare to have a debate within America of who is an American and what America will look like," Ward says. Towards that end, groups like the National Alliance and the Council of Conservative Citizens, a national white-power group which counts nearly 30 Mississippi state legislators among its members and which has hosted both Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Georgia congressman Bob Barr at its meetings, are toning down their rhetoric. That change does not mean that the hate groups have moderated their views, however. "Our people are becoming more radical, but they're becoming more smart," says Tom Metzger, the 63-year-old founder of the hate group White Aryan Resistance, who is considered one of the patriarchs of the racist right. Devin Burghart of the Chicago-based Center for New Community, which tracks white nationalist activity in the Midwest, says the hate groups had already changed tactics. "They're focused on building a base, building a constituency, and you can't do that when you're blowing stuff up. That's the lesson they learned from the militia movement," says Burghart. The lesson they are learning from the Sept. 11 attacks, it seems, is that building a constituency can be easier when someone else is blowing things up

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Chief not a Chief
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

First some background; Here in the USA stereotypes of racial minorities are a popular way of selling products and sports teams. All very much like the Nazi images of Jews, Romany, and Slavic people that allowed them to be thought of as less than human. Until fairly recently exaggerated and demeaning cartoons of African Americans were used to sell everything from pancakes and breakfast cereal to cleaning products. While these have - through boycotts and other actions- become a thing of the past the use of these same types of demeaning and dehumanizing caricatures of American Indian peoples is still common. Sports teams call themselves the Red Skins, Chiefs, Braves, Savages, Warriors, Indians, etc and use half naked grotesque depictions of Native people as their symbols. The Illinois University Basketball team goes a step farther by having a white dressed as *a real savage redskin* come out and do a *traditional Indian dance* in a performance that casts ridicule on the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (North America). This at a time when the Gov't. and their multinational corporate friends have increased their attacks on our reservations and way of life. Doc OreadDaily(a)yahoogroups.com wrote: AND IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL Missouri got its tail whipped in basketball last week by Illinois. The highlight film however does not show a man, dressed all in black (probably one of them anarchists or something) burst through a ring of fans and tackled Chief Illiniwek, Illinois' mascot, at half-time. Illinois University spokesman Kent Brown said the mascot has never been confronted before. Chief Illiniwek performs a traditional Indian dance at home games but rarely performs on the road. The performances have been criticized for racial insensitivity. It is unknown whether the attack was related to the years-long debate on campus and beyond over the controversial Chief. If it wasn't it should have been. Several Illinois fans in the circle around the court wore ``Save the Chief'' buttons. Scott Keihl, 24, of Columbia, faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine on the third-degree assault count. Sources: Native News,Daily Illini, St. Louis Post ===== "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better.It's not." -Dr. Seuss, 'The Lorax' "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 "You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." -Gandhi Wonder how james cosners going?

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2 deadly lethal Implosions.
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

The only sound during a lethal injection is said to be when the lungs(or *towers*) collapse.The end is nigh. Undercutting Executions Death penalty opponents are launching a new campaign to make it more difficult -- and more costly -- for prison officials to carry out lethal injection executions. by Justine Sharrock December 28, 2001 Can public pressure on drug companies put an end to lethal injections? As the chief executive of McAlester Regional Health Center in McAlester, Okla., Joel Tate is in the business of saving lives. So he said it came as a shock when Human Rights Watch suggested last June that his hospital was indirectly helping to kill people. For the past twenty years, the hospital had been the Oklahoma Department of Corrections' sole supplier of potassium chloride, one of the drugs used during lethal injection executions -- a procedure which Oklahoma carried out more often than any other state in 2001. Human Rights Watch, as part of a larger campaign to limit states' access to lethal injection drugs, urged Tate to sever his hospital's drug supply relationship with Oklahoma's prisons. The New York group's arguments swayed Tate, who ordered an immediate end to the sale of potassium chloride to corrections officials. That single decision marked the first victory in what could become an innovative new push by anti-death penalty activists. Rather than attempting to convince state lawmakers to abandon capital punishment, the activists are setting their sights on the pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors on whom state and federal prisons rely. The hope, activists say, is that the companies and institutions which provide lethal injection drugs will be sufficiently influenced by negative publicity to drop the practice. Activists acknowledge that this new campaign won't put an end to capital punishment. The goal, they say, is simply to make it more complicated -- and possibly more costly -- for states to carry out a death sentence. "Drug companies are in the business of making drugs for health and well-being, not to kill people," says Steve Hawkins, Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "If a department of corrections wants to be in the business of killing people, let it be expensive, and let it be difficult." Lethal injection is used by the US government and military as well as 36 of the 38 states which provide for the death penalty. A combination of three drugs are used in the process: sodium thiopental, or Pentothal, an anesthetic which puts the inmate to sleep; Pancuronium, which paralyzes the muscles and stops breathing; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. Human Rights Watch has launched an effort targetting distributors of potassium chloride. Allison Collins, a senior researcher with the group, says the organization is preparing a letter-writing campaign directed at two California companies -- Bergen Brunswig Corporation and Cardinal Health -- which are the nation's major suppliers of the drug. Similarly, the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty has launched a letter-writing campaign directed at Illinois-based Abbott Laboratory, the sole suppliers of Pentothal. The new effort is not without precedent. In 1994, activists joined with the American College of Physicians and Physicians for Human Rights to launch a campaign aimed at discouraging doctors and other medical professionals from taking part in lethal injection executions. Since lethal injection involves the administering of drugs normally used for medical purposes, prison officials often ask that heath care professionals be involved, with some states even requiring their presence. "It is hypocritical for health professionals to be involved in the death of individuals, instead of promoting health and life," argues Abe Bonowitz, director of Florida based Citizens United Against the Death Penalty, which joined in the 1994 campaign. While that effort has had mixed results, death penalty opponents are hoping that applying similar pressure to drug companies will have a more far-reaching effect. Given the initial reactions from copmany officials, however, the campaign could be a long and difficult one. Most of the companies targeted in the campaign insist they cannot be held accountable for how corrections officials use the drugs, all of which have other medical uses. Officials at Abbott, for instance, claim they have already tried to keep their product from being used in executions. "Abbott does not support the use of Penthothal in capital punishment," says Abbott vice-president Catherine Babington. "In fact, (we) communicated with departments of corrections in the United States to request that this product not be used in capital punishment procedures." But the company can't control how their products are used, she says, claiming that corrections officials purchase sodium thiopental for use as a medical anesthetic. Officials at Baxter International, Inc., which produces Pancuronium, the third drug in the lethal injection cocktail, likewise deny responsibility for the use of their product in executions. "Information on the proper uses of Pancuronium are clearly stated on the label, in accordance to regulatory procedures," says Deborah Spak, a spokesperson for Baxter International, Inc. "We cannot know every use of the product that we sell. " Activists acknowledge that theirs will be an uphill struggle. Still, they see their efforts to influence drug manufacturers and distributors as a significant part of a broad effort. "This is not going to be the one key in ending the death penalty, says Jeff Garis, executive director of Pennsylvania Abolitionists Against the Death Penalty. "It is part of a larger overall strategy, that is going to take multiple tactics and campaigns." http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/executions.html APster is interested in targeted action against the guards that volunteer for execution duties.Send me their details.

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Scarffed data probably an "illegal wiretap"
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/12/27/fbi-snooping.htm Defense attorneys said the case might have been a "run of the mill bookmaking case" except for the surveillance issue. They requested full disclosure of the government's operation, claiming Scarfo otherwise would not get a fair trial. Specifically, the attorneys wanted to ensure that e-mail messages were not gathered by modem and phone lines, possibly constituting an illegal wiretap. In his ruling, Politan said the government convinced him at a Sept. 26 closed meeting that no information was picked up while a modem was on. Prosecutors were justified in invoking the Classified Information Privacy Act to protect national security at stake in the case, he said. Vincent Scoca, Scarfo's attorney, said he will file to have the ruling reconsidered, a first step toward higher appeals. "This a is a bad precedent for our judicial system. This was a two-bit bookmaking operation. There was nothing extraordinary about this case that warranted them using the Classified Information Privacy Act," he said. "That's a police state and we don't want a police state. Even in these times, after Sept. 11, people still don't (want) unwarranted government intrusion." Scoca was not allowed to attend the September meeting. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Wigler said the judge's access to classified information at the meeting was "a safeguard to prevent the government from overreaching, as the defense alleges. That's why there are these checks and balances." Scarfo's trial including evidence gathered from the FBI surveillance is likely get under way in the spring, Wigler said. Trials good source of intelligence for cypher-terrorists,should be a good one.Thanks Uncle Sam.

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by bvm93＠iol.it 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

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What is a 'right'? Its right to kill the president.
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

>>Note that there is nothing in nature which implies that force and desire will be mitigated in and of themselves (so much for CACL philosophy). Not even APster? The mount everest of CALC philosophy? >>In fact, if one looks at game theory it becomes abundently clear, even given the utility of game theoretic concepts, that the best strategy is not to play by the rules given a choice (this helps explain why non-sentient biological activity conforms to game theory in many cases).<< Evolution in a nutshell,brilliant jim,now as you live near millions of people who don't believe in evolution,would you please stop preaching to the choir and take your show on the road. >>This of course destroys any concept of 'utopia' where everyone plays by the same rules all the time without exception.<< These concepts are hereby outlawed.No one will speak of the lifestyles of pre-european polynesia,Arawak,aboriginal and west coast tribespeoples ever again.Should they do so they will be fed to vicious shoats.To begin to think is to begin to be undermined.Im worried about you jim,If the above," What is a 'right'?,"screed was your work,I suggest you read some of RD Laings "Knots".You seem trapped in a bind of some kind.Try challomile and even valerian teas as you read.Go up a hightower somewhere with a highpowered book or two.Thinking of you.

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Argentine Anarquia revolucione
by mattd 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Riots spark chaos in Argentina From AFP December 31, 2001 ARGENTINE President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa's week-old cabinet offered its collective resignation yesterday following renewed unrest over economic policies and unpopular government officials. There was no word on whether Mr Rodriguez Saa had accepted the resignations. Austerity measures led to riots that toppled the previous president, Fernando de la Rua, and threaten Mr Rodriguez Saa now the street protests have resumed. However, Mr Rodriguez Saa received an encouraging telephone call from US President George W. Bush, who urged him to stick with a strict plan approved by the International Monetary Fund. Mr Bush "emphasised the need for the Argentine Government to develop a sustainable economic plan and work closely with international financial institutions to do so", White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters at Mr Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. In Buenos Aires, thousands of people took to the streets overnight demanding the release of their money, which has been frozen in bank accounts. The protests turned violent when a group of young demonstrators tried to storm the presidential palace and clashed with riot police, who used tear gas and water hoses to break up the crowd. Another crowd stormed the Congress building, torching curtains and wrecking furniture before they were ousted by police. Twelve officers were injured, six seriously, and 33 people were arrested. Mr Rodriguez Saa asked the country's banks to help re-establish peace by facilitating the payment of pensions and salaries to workers and retirees. He said that in a meeting with business community leaders he had asked banks to remain open from 8am to 8pm today to cash cheques of up to 1000 pesos ($A1900) per person. In one of the overnight clashes, a retired police officer guarding a service station shot and killed three youths after a heated argument, according to local media reports yesterday. The shooting sparked violent protests, and security officials used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Lawyer Diego Fumagalli criticised political leaders for missing the point. "They didn't understand the people's message," he said. "The message was that we want a new political system without corruption, and then they go and name all these corrupt politicians to the new government." Since taking office for a three-month interim term, Mr Saa has suspended payments on the country's $261 billion foreign debt, and announced the creation of 1 million temporary jobs as part of an emergency program aimed at helping the 2.5 million unemployed. Subject: Intenational Anarchy.FAQ you. FROM... http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html The FAQ is now mirrored at the following sites (which we know of): Original site: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ General sites: http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/ http://www.diy-punk.org/anarchy/ http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html http://www.anarchism.ca/faq/ http://www.illuminati.ch/anarchy http://tofuwurst.staticky.com/anarchy/ http://chat.carleton.ca/~sgoodhew/anarchy/mirrors/anarchist_faq/index.html http://www.secret-paradise.com/anarcho/ http://www.throneworld.com/dgarrison/index.html http://www.geocities.com/hope_liberty_association/faq/index.html http://www.xs4all.be/~erbu/anarchy/index.html http://www.almostnotcrazy.org/b/anarchist_faq/index.html http://www.radio4all.org/afaq/ http://www.anarchy.be/faq/index.html http://www.vamosamontarla.com/ For Australian readers, try this site. For European readers, try here or here For North American readers, try here. For the version at Spunk Press, click here. Non-English versions of the FAQ In Hebrew: http://www.shalif.com/anarchy/faqdama.html http://www.geocities.com/~drilanshalif/faqdama.html http://members.tripod.com/~alternativ_psy/faqdama.html In Portuguese: http://www.geocities.com/projetoperiferia2/indice.htm In Japanese: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy/faq/faqbase.html Can you dig it.CAN YOU DIG IT!

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