I responded to Skippy's on-topic, more or less substantive questions about remailers in Message-ID <Pine.GUL.3.93.960518010958.19939C-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU> This has absolutely nothing to do with crypto, but that's what I subscribed to coderpunks for. On Fri, 17 May 1996, Dave Harman wrote:
Ask our resident "free speech for RESPECTABLE dissidents," L. Lurch@stanford.edu (racial capitali$t d0g) for a virulent defense of Co$ style tactics against racists. Ask him about SPLC, Seraw vs WAR, Tom, John METZGER.
I grew up 15 minutes from Metzger and played soccer with one of his kids, and he threatened some friends of mine. I've talked to his sidekick Wyatt Kaldenberg about other things, and defended their absolute right to free speech on occasion. But other than that, I don't know much about Metzger. Skippy seems to have this illusion that I'm some big bad anti-racist, which I find amusing. Another WAR/CoS mal-analogy one could scrawl is that Metzger has paid about as much of the judgement awarded to the murder victim's family as CoS has paid to Wollersheim. But I wouldn't follow that line of reasoning myself, since I'm no fan of the SPLC. Maybe they did a good thing in the Seraw murder case, but their current suit agaist Pierce's neo-Nazi National Alliance seems rather SLAPP-ish to me. I'm sure Morty would try to justify going after deep-pocket racists by saying that they deserve it because the $4.5 million or so that The Order White Nationalist Revolutionary [cough] Movement liberated from banks and convenience stores has never been recovered, but he's wrong. Sure Bobby claimed to be doing those robberies in the name of the Aryan Cause, but it looks like he really spent the money on himself, just like any other "political" crook (the Contras, the FMLN, Sendero, the Machateros, the US Congress, etc). The SPLC probably has a web server somewhere with more details, but there's a minimal amount of information about the case at: http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?people/m/metzger.tom http://www.almanac.bc.ca/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?orgs/american/war Tom Metzger's web page (sorry, it's actually John Metzger's web page, which happens to carry all sorts of stuff from Tom -- you see, facing a $10 court judgement upheld by the Supreme Court, Tom has sworn an oath of poverty to avoid giving the Zionist Occupational Government any more blood money) is at: http://www.free.cts.com/crash/m/metzger/ -rich http://www.c2.org/~rich/Not_By_Me_Not_My_Views/rebuttal.html