---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The True Story of the InterNet Part III InfoWar Final Frontier of the Digital Revolution Behind the ElectroMagnetic Curtain by TruthMonger <tm@dev.null> Copyright 1997 Pearl Publishing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWar Table of Contents * Anarchist Post of the Century Alex Le Clue ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anarchist Post of the Century ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Mr. Policeman is Your Friend From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Electronic Frontier Canada's David Jones (djones@insight.dcss.McMaster.CA) posted the following to the EFC mailing list:
2. If cops can read E-mail, so can the bad guys http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/gazette.24sep97.html
Let's not forget that cops are often the bad guys. And I don't mean this in a macho, off-the-pigs way. I mean that throughout history the "cops" are those who have enforced the laws and whims of tyrants, who have arrested and tortured and executed dissidents and nonconformists of all flavors, and who were the "King's men" in the times of the Founders. Even in more recent decades in the U.S., don't forget it was "cops" who harassed civil rights workers, who broke up perfectly legal strikes, who arrested and imprisoned Eugene Debs for speaking out against the draft in particular and a foolish war, WW 1, in general, and so on. One need only look to J. Edgar Hoover and his police state measures. (In fact, the very term "police state" tells us all we need to know about whether or not "Mr. Policeman is Your Friend" is always, or even most of the time, true.) And with full awareness that I am invoking Godwin's Law, the "cops" in Europe in the 1933-45 period were the enforcers of Hitler's policies. Here's a list of some folks throughout history and in various regimes who would likely have reason not to want to escrow their keys with the local police: Jews, Catholics, Protestants, atheists, heretics, schismatics, heathens, poets, authors, Scharansky, Solzhenitsyn, refuseniks, Chinese dissidents, students in front of tanks, Branch Davidians, Scientologists, Jesus, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, African National Congress, UNITA, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, colonial rebels, patriots, Tories, Basque separatists, Algerian separatists, secessionists, abolitionists, John Brown, draft opponents, communists, capitalists, imperialist lackeys, anarchists, Charlie Chaplin, Galileo, Joan of Arc,, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, civil rights workers, Margaret Sanger, birth control activists, abortionists, anti-abortionists, Michael Miliken, Robert Vesco, Marc Rich, Nixon's Enemies, Hoover's enemies, Clinton's enemies, Republicans, Democrats, anarchists, labor organizers, pornographers, readers of "Playboy," viewers of images of women whose faces are uncovered, Amateur Action, Jock Sturges, violators of the CDA, alt.fan.karla-homulka readers, Internet Casino customers, Scientologists, Rosicrucians, royalists, Jacobeans, Hemlock Society activists, Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez, opponents of United Fruit, land reformers, Simon Bolivar, Robin Hood, Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement, Jack Anderson, Daniel Ellesberg, peace activists, Father Berrigan, Mormons, Joseph Smith, missionaries, Greenpeace, Animal Liberation Front, gypsies, diplomats, UN ambassadors, Randy Weaver, David Koresh, Ayatollah Khomeini, John Gotti, Papists, Ulstermen, IRA, Shining Path, militia members, tax protesters, Hindus, Sikhs, Lech Walesa, Polish labor movement, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and "suspects" --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Le Clue ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Axle Le Clue shook his head in disbelief, as he read the CypherPunks list post that had been sent by his clueless Doppelganger, Alex Le Heux. Subject: Re: "Show me an example of terrorists using the Internet or crypto" From: alexlh@xs4all.nl (Alex Le Heux) To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Bullshit. People in the US rarely use their weapons against oppressive governments or political turbulence. Most guns that are used against another person there are used to commit crime or to defend against those armed criminals. Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> wrote:
Let's also take a look at the Dutch performance during their occupation. While there certainly were many courageous Dutch people who helped refugees (at great personal risk, to say the least), and there were many courageous Dutch people who were in the resistance, there were also many Dutch people who did not perform so well. Not only were a large number of Jewish people turned in by Dutch informers, but there were even Dutch SS units.
You have a nerve. You, coming from a country where people are still regularly killed in the name of racism, tell me this?! Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDNpTNuYAh4dUSo/EQK3bwCeKJv4AW0kOwjSRitLi7HDa7KEaW8AoN4F OwK1wOG19pazc93T1twP1Evp =FsmU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Axle Le Clue had been following this thread, in which a large number of CypherPunks had contributed their perspective, to little effect, for the most part. Alex Le H[clu]e[less]ux, despite a variety of sensible, well-reasoned posts by a number of different American CypherPunks, seemed to remain, in his own mind, a world-class expert on a country in which he did not reside. What was especially sad, was that the poor, dumb fucker wasn't even a spook. Axle Le Clue decided that, since the rather civil posts by the other list members were not helping his clueless twin from across the sea to come half-way to his senses, that he would step into his VerityMonger suit and bring the boy up to speed on what an ignorant asshole he was making of himself. It was the least he could do for an evil twin Subject: When you realize that you're too stupid to live, you can borrow my gun. From: Axellc@xsDRUGS4all.hi (Axle Le Clue) To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM Alex, Did you know that all Europeans are exactly 5' 7" tall, have light brown hair and limp slightly when they walk? I know this because I watch TV and that makes me a goddamn fucking expert on you low-life foreigners who aren't like us, over here. If you disagree with my view of your region of the world, then why don't you get your head out of your fucking ass so that you have an outside chance of expressing an opinion or viewpoint that you didn't suck out of the cocks of the mass media when it comes to our region of the world. I saw a news story on TV the other day about two senior citizens who drew down on a would-be robber in a restaurant, or some such, using their illegal guns, which they carried for their own protection. Yep, I saw it in the news once. Today some kid slashed his mater's throat, and then went to school and whacked out a couple of his classmates with a rifle. I have seen this every half-fucking-hour since it happened, and will no doubt be shown all of the messy details another few hundred times before the mass media who seem to be in charge of spoon-feeding people like yourself their world-view is done creating your reality for you. You want nerve, pal? I've got the fucking nerve to suggest that you petition your fucking government to take in a few million US government created nigger crack-heads, so that your country can teach our citizens how to treat them with love and respect. To tell the truth, I'd rather you took the white-bread junkies, because my nigger drug addict acquaintances have treated me much better than my honkey junkie pals. Correct me if I'm wrong (but I never am), but it seems to me that Europe is not even interested in saving our Black-African Americans from the horrible abuse they suffer as a result of our country's racism. Come and get 'em see if they'll go. The US has racial problems because we have different races. We also have a whole shitload of racial harmony. All over the world, there are a variety of countries engaged in mass murder and genocide, at any given point in time. You try coming to the US and slaughtering even a few thousand of any particular race, religion, or ethnic group, and you won't even be able to take a wild guess at the number of people of various races, religions and ethnic groups that will be on your ass like shit on stink. You hypocritical piece of shit--having the fucking audacity to conceitedly brag about how the people of Europe have "put the crap of WWII behind us" and suggest that it is something that we "haven't managed to do." Want the cold, hard facts of life, Bubba? You didn't put WWII 'behind' you. We did! Gun-loving Americans conquered your continent and gave you your countries back instead of enslaving you, like every other winner in history has done. Some of us discriminate against Jews. Do you know why? Because we HAVE some! We were giving them refuge while Europe was massacring them by the millions. Now you have the balls to say we're not all treating them right all of the time. Buy a fucking clue! NEWS FLASH!!! Fascism hadn't died, it has just gone underground and crept into every facet of life through the corporate and government power mongers. The government and the mass media are working the citizens like dumb fish on a hook, who are still trying to swallow the worm. There is a New World Order on the way, and it isn't going to be any prettier than the last time it was tried. You can dismiss as paranoid ranters and ravers, those who decry the increasing loss of our freedom and privacy, but you would be better served to listen and learn from them, rather than criticize their determination to defend their liberty, to the death, if necessary. Why? Because these are the same people who defended Europe's liberty, to the death. The danger is not the freedom lovers who are armed and declaring the line they will not let others step over, in compromising their rights and freedoms. The danger is the sheeple who believe the government and their media shills when they say that the Thought Police only want Austria. The Privacy Police only want the Jews. The danger is the sheeple who buy the government lie that they need to deny us our rights and freedoms to solve the problems that they, themselves, have created. If you can't see this clearly, then there is nothing that I or any of the other CypherPunks can say to change your perception of the source of creeping fascism that is leading to yet another attempt to create a New World Order. I love the American people. I despise the secret American government. I feel the same about many other countries I have lived in or visited. I do not want to see your children, or mine, fighting in the future over what color to paint their prison cells, instead of fighting to escape, and be free. When the cattle cars stop at the end of the line, the people you find there are not nearly as civil and reasonable as the ones who checked your identity cards at the beginning of the trip, to make sure that you were properly processed according to your rights under the law. I think you are an idiot to believe that the threat of weapons in the hands of the citizens is a greater threat than weapons only in the hands of the rich and powerful. However, if Europe is conquered by the forces of evil, once again, I am sure that myself and many other Americans will do what we can to come pull your ass out of the fire. It may take a little longer, this time, though, since we may have to kick our own fascist government's ass before we come kick the shit out of your dictators. No need to thank us it's just the way Americans are. VerityMonger "If you want to conquer the world, you're going to have to come through me." ("Do you feel lucky, Hitler? Well do you?) 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