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Militias
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just watched an hour-long special on CBS, "The Birth of a Militia," about the Rocky Mountain Militia is southern Utah. On nearly every issue I felt the militia members were right. Personally, I don't share their animosity toward Jews and blacks, but their beliefs are theirs to practice as they wish (including fighting laws which force them to mix with other races, as with laws which force them to hire those they have no desire to hire). I got so angry at their persecution that I felt like going out target shooting at my favorite range (open late at night). But since I went out shooting just this afternoon, I guess I'll stay home and rant. The militia member who was arrested, tried, and convicted of illegally owning a gun, evading the police, and driving without a license, apparently committed no serious crimes, by my standards. He didn't rob, he didn't rape, he didn't kill. As the Sheriff was quoted several times as saying, he "mouthed off." And apparently being a "skinhead" and a "militia member" is ipso facto proof of criminality. The Sheriff said he planned to get Johnny. Fuck them. Political crimes. Just like Bell. Maybe I will get in another hour of target practice tonight. The end times are coming. (BTW, the CBS piece left on this note: Johnny (didn't catch his last name) is holed up this evening in his compound, refusing to report for sentencing. The State Security Bureau, er, the Sheriff, says a shootout is likely.) --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Big Brother is watching
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:43 AM 9/4/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: ... >>With this wonderful sucess, We can all look forward to this items being >>placed in our domiciles in order to further protect us from crime. > >And I'll give my kids a can of spray paint and a ladder. Maybe I'll offer >bonus prizes if they can figure out an inventive, undetectable way to disable >the fucker. ... In Altus, it is illegal to sell spray paint to persons under the age of 18. That makes two violations of their rights that I know of. The curfue which was enacted a couple years ago being the first. All because the local politicians are fully aware that they are too young to vote.

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Cars Re: FBI calls for mandatory key escrow
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:43 AM 9/4/97 -0500, amp wrote: > >> >> I noticed that strange air bag analogy myself. Clearly, Freeh and his >> puppet masters are trying to skew the discussion towards "public safety". >> Of course, requiring GAK is more like requiring a remote kill switch in >the >> ignition of all new cars so cops can just type a license plate number >into >> their terminal to halt a fleeing car. [BTW, such kill switches will be >> required before long. I trust we all know this]. > >Already implemented actually. All modern automobiles have a rather >respectable amount of computing power that is vulnerable to directed radio >frequency weapons, whose effect to microelectronics is similar to an >electromatic pulse. =This= is what is driving the push to get older >vehicles off the road, not environmentalist's arguments about 'global >warming'. Actually, the current trick is to launch a little rocket-powered cart with some form of electronic measure under the fleeing car from behind. It fizzles the electronics pretty well on contact with the bottom of the oilpan. Anyone know if one of those protectors that you can get for your oil pan would deflect this if it were mounted on rubber washers with teflon screws?

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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:43 1/3/96, jim bell wrote: >Interestingly enough, my primary objection was NOT really commercial >encroachment on an existing amateur structure (though that is an important >consideration!); rather, it was the fact that because we're talking really >short-range communication (way less than a kilometer, in most cases) using >frequencies below a gigahertz would be a counter-productive shame. Here, we >WANT "line of sight"! And, of course, the bandwidth issue is inherently >better: It would be FAR easier to get 100 MHz width at around 2.5 GHz than >under 1 gig! There are several vendors offering 2.4GHz wireless with ranges up to 20 miles. Though the 900MHz stuff is much cheaper. Unless you have a pager cell on your roof, 900MHz should serve you fine. >I get a free (bingo-card) magazine industry magazine called "Microwaves and >RF," which is sort of the EDN for the high-frequency communication crowd. >You'd be amazed at the level of technical (chip) development there. Chip >sets that do frequency synthesis/full RF/IF on surface mount chips. If you don't want to build your own, there are various vendors that use the NEC 900MHz bridge card in their products. Or just buy the card, get an old 486, and round up the software from somone. >(BTW, I use Eudora, and I have PGP. Could somebody explain how to PGP-sign >messages, ideally EASILY?) Assuming Eudora for Mac: Download MacPGP Control. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Crypto Hearings
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan, or anyone, are there any transcipts of this SAFE hearing, or news reports, or other documents: September 4, 1997 SECURITY AND FREEDOM THROUGH ENCRYPTION ACT Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection held a hearing on H.R. 695, Security and Freedom Through encryption (SAFE) Act. Testimony was heard from Representatives Goodlatte and Lofgren; William P. Cowell, Deputy Director, NSA, Department of Defense; William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary, Export Administration, Department of Commerce; Robert S. Litt, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and public witnesses. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- And for these of the coming week: Congressional Record: September 5, 1997 (Digest): CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD Week of September 8 through 13, 1997 [Excerpts] House Committees Committee on National Security, September 9, to markup H.R. 695, Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, September 9, executive, hearing on Encryption legislation, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol. September 11, executive, to markup Encryption legislation, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol. Committee on Science, September 10, hearing on Next Generation Internet Initiative, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. September 11, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 2265, No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, and also on electronic copyright piracy, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn. September 11, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing regarding cellular telephone fraud, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. Senate Committees Select Committee on Intelligence: September 10, to hold a closed briefing on intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219. Committee on Labor and Human Resources: September 11, to hold hearings to examine the confidentiality of medical information, 10 a.m., SD-430.

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Re: Compuserve *hasn't* banned newsgroups
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems to me that posting this widely on Compuserve (or at least on alt.online-service.compuserve) and then contacting CNN and making comments about how "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" is the best way to handle this. We want the public to get the idea that censorship does not work on the Internet. Are you up for this Duncan? Or do you want to call for volunteer, or should this get posted anonymously. :-) Seems better if someone does it who is willing to talk to reporters, and who is a Compuserve user. Makes a better story on TV etc. -- Vince Duncan: > I grabbed a copy of the Free Agent newsreader: > > http://www2.interpath.net/forte/agent/freagent.htm > [...] > I grabbed the latest list of open NNTP Servers from: > > http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html

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Louis Freeh's Desire for Domestic "Key Recovery"
by Bill Frantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is the contents of a letter I sent to the San Jose Mercury News. Any bets on whether it gets published? It is not surprising that FBI Director Louis Freeh wants to be able to read every private communication in the country. After all, he is director of the government agency that rose to its current prominence because Director-for-life J. Edgar Hoover used illegal wiretaps to blackmail prominent politicians. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet was designed | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | to protect the free world | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | from hostile governments. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: Political News from Wired News
by Syniker＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 97-09-06 07:15:18 EDT, vznuri(a)netcom.com (Vladimir Z. Nuri) writes: << maybe I'm not following closely enough, but I haven't seen a *single* reference. that's really eerie. can't we get a *single* senator to bring up that issue? >> me neither... it's fucking mind-boggling.... and where's all the 'censorship' people???? it's like -- no one can make the 'connection' .... the CDA and FCA lists are dead ... not a word ... how can we all have wet powder at the same time? is Leahy saying anything? .... i'll find his site and see..... ldm

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Re: FCPUNX:FBI calls for mandatory key escrow
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:40 AM 9/4/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > Who is going to stop them? They have the guns! When our elected > officials in Congress delved into the INSLAW affair, the Department > of Justice told them to "Fuck off." and refused to cooperate with > those who represent the citizens. Congress's reaction was to say, > "Yup. They're defying us." > Ipso facto--Congress is not running the country. The LEA's are running > the country. Go figure... It used to be that normal federal agencies did not have their own goons. They relied on the fibbies. Now every federal agency is creating their own goon squad. Sometimes they send in the goons to illegally enforce the laws that they are lobbying for. Congress then has to make it legal, or crack down on illegal use of force by a federal agency. Frequently they make it legal This is reminiscent of the latter days of the Soviet Union. Towards the end in the Soviet Union, armed government agencies would raid other agencies for valuables, and set up road blocks at random times and places, and confiscate anything valuable being trucked through by another government agency. No kidding. A government factory would be working on producing widgets, and suddenly guys with guns would come in and take their stuff for another government factory. The west is beginning to show the same symptoms, though as yet not nearly as severe. The state is visibly losing cohesion, and at the same time, through improved communications, the citizenry is gaining cohesion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Junger v. Daley Amended Complaint
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer Junger v. Daley (formerly Junger v. Christopher) Supplemental and Amended Complaint which responds to recent exchanges between the plaintiff and the Departments of Justice and Commerce: http://jya.com/pdj3.htm (40K) plus attachments This builds on earlier filings and documents: http://jya.com/pdj.htm http://jya.com/pdj2.htm

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