Hello, I recently saw Mr. May's delightful `Who is L.Detweiler' post. I am going to address this posting in utmost seriousness. It contains very many inaccuracies and distortions that I simply cannot let stand. Mr. May and all other cypherpunks have the most self-centered, egotistical view of the universe of anyone. Mr. May, his associates, and his sycophantic followers distort the truth so frequently that they eventually begin to believe their own lies. The pattern of taking credit for other's hard earned accomplishments, starting with Zimmermann's PGP and even in the case of my `insanity' (the Big Mac term for anything I write, no matter how lucid), persists forever. First, reports of my insanity are greatly exaggerated. They seemed to have originated with P.Metzger. At first I was just writing `rants' and these became labelled as `insane' as a simple progression in terms that paralleled the Cypherpunk desperation at my tenacity. Mr. May starts out with an amusing account of my tenure on the Cypherpunks list, apparently believing that was the beginning of my existence. For cypherpunks, who live in their complex inbred environment in cyberspace, it is.
He often got angry with someone and slipped into insulting them as being duplicitous, malicious, etc., instead of merely ascribing their different opinions as being just that.
I think it is clear to anyone who has posted on the list for some time that it is filled with two classes of people: the people who attend CA meetings and grovel at the feet of the High Leaders, Gilmore, Hughes, and May. And there are the independent thinkers who occasionally agree but also call the leaders Stupid when they post messages that imply stellar stupidity or hypocrisy (e.g., `Abandon PGP!' `Change the Cypherpunk Name to Something Less Subversive'!). And we have the Wannabes from around the world, people like D.Barnes (TX) and Nate Sammons (CO) who look up to their Gods in reverent awe and hope to be Big Macs themselves one day. In short, the list has been intensely political, laden and smacked with complex secret and hidden loyalties, from the beginning. Anyone who flames a leader for stupidity or hypocrisy, based on nothing other than their actual posts, is considered a `frustrated wannabe'. Everyone here fits into some particular caste. (The Cypherpunks do exist in a sort of mysterious balance with some outsiders, but usually there is only enmity in the case of irreverence on the outsider's part and approval if there is glorification and idolatry.) Mr. May makes long reference to my postings on the Cypherpunks list, characterizing them all as a sort of bag of ad hominem insults and rants. I stand by everything I have ever posted to the Cypherpunks list, contrary to T.C.May, who is deathly terrified that anyone outside his little inbred fiefdom should stumble on his rants about how all Law Enforcement and Governments are inherently Evil, how Pornography is Liberating, etc. These are just the rants that he says *publicly*. Behind the scenes all three leaders, Gilmore, May, and Hughes, promote much more subversive ideology and religion to their cult of fanatic followers. `Lies are Liberating' etc. The media has been infected with their distortions of their agenda of hiding criminal activities such as tax evasion, black marketeering, money laundering, and the overthrow of governments under the guise of `privacy for the masses' and `the cryptographic revolution'. I have forever attempted to start projects on the Cypherpunks list, but found lukewarm interest and searing enmity from the CA Clique. One project was the whistleblowing newsgroup, which was a success from the beginning. I wrote the FAQ for it and despite that its activity has declined, people still inquire about the FAQ. But the CA psychopunks were opposed to this project, because they were not controlling it. And they conspired in the most malicious ways to thwart its establishment. One of their favorite tactics is to say, `so and so is working on it. don't do anything.' If anyone else has gotten this line from any cypherpunk, I urge you to ignore it as a lie.
By last summer, Detweiler was handing out "Cypherpunks of the Week" awards, was arguing for his own form of electronic democracy (one person one vote, to be done on a daily basis on all sorts of issues....needless to say, many of us disagreed with him), and was generally ranting and raving.
I think it is clear that Electronic Democracy and the cypherpunk vision of Cryptoanarchy are simply fundamentally incompatible. But it took a long time for me to realize that it wasn't that it wasn't a great idea, but that the CA psychopunks recognized their Antichrist when they heard the words `Electronic Democracy' and flamed it into oblivion with all their tentacles on the list.
He apparently decided that I, for example, was using a variety of fake names, including Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Geoff Dale (yes, the very same folks you all know from _this_ List!),
yes, cypherpunk readers, and from *where* else do you know them? G.Dale is real, but as for the others...?
Thus, if Nick Szabo argues against electronic democracy AND has a Netcom account, as I do, then it's obvious: szabo@netcom.com is obviously a "tentacle" of tcmay@netcom.com! What could be more obvious?
we know that szabo@netcom.com was one of your favorite sites to `pseudopool' from, or have many different cypherpunks post through from `behind the scenes'. T.C.May was one such cypherpunk. This question of who posts through the account is independent of who Szabo is as a human being.
This all increased, with Detweiler launching daily rants against me, Eric Hughes, and others. He demanded apologies "or else." He demanded statements from the "Cypherpunks High Command" that we no longer "pseudospoof." He appealed to John Gilmore to "put a stop to this pseudospoofing," but John was in Nepal on a trek and didn't respond. When John eventually returned, he replied in a calm manner and suggested that Detweiler was mistaken. True to form, Detweiler went ballistic at this "betrayal" and declared Gilmore to be just another "Big Mac."
The escalation started, really, after I had been betrayed by real tentacles. Mr. May as usual is very careful to avoid any specific references to them. And our information that T.C.May, E.Hughes, and J.Gilmore are all involved in a pseudospoofing conspiracy comes from insiders, not from speculation. This is why they are deathly terrified of making any conclusive statements about their complicity.
(In DetSpeak, many new terms exist.
I thank Mr. May for explaining the new terminology invented to adequately summarize the cypherpunk conspiracy.
He also drifts into Christian rants about Hell, Satan, God, and Damnation. Keeping track of his shifting terminology is a chore.)
I don't recall those. I'd be delighted if you post even one message of the thousands I have written and sent in email, instead of distorting the truth about their contents.
He asked to be removed from the Cypherunks list, and was, but continued to post to it (blindly).
I ask Mr. Hughes and Mr. May whether it is an invasion of privacy to tell the world whether someone is on their list or not. I also ask them why they seem to think that I am not receiving the cypherpunks list even as I post to it.
He created his own group, the "Cypherwonks" list, with a fascist list of rules and regulations about true identities, the evils of pseudospoofing, etc.
I'm delighted at Mr. May's reference to the cypherwonk charter as `fascist'. Everyone is free to read it themself. send `info cypherwonks' in the message body to majordomo@lists.eunet.fi. I think you will find that the charter actually simply insists on a code of ethics and morality in cyberspace -- something cypherpunks and their leaders, not surprisingly because of their aversion to honesty, brand `fascist'. I would like to know why Mr. May continually insists, despite our damning evidence to the contrary (which unfortunately we are unable to present publicly at this time, to continue to delineate the extent of the conspiracy), that he has never used a `tentacle', and simultaneously claims that rules and regulations about true identities, against `the evils of pseudospoofing', are `fascist'.
Detweiler issued death threats, saying he would be visiting the Bay Area to "kill the tentacles."
I have never said any such thing. I have however posted some satirical messages about `death to tentacles' or `death to cyberanarchists' that could be misconstrued as real death threats by people with overactive imaginations spurred by their fevered consciences. Mr. May's barrage of references to events that have never happened and text that does not exist frustrates me in the extreme-- most frustrating is that the BrainDead, the Blind, and the Brainwashed do not challenge it.
He mostly did this under his an12070 name, though he often confused the identities and made several telling slips
Mr. May, who says that he has no idea why anyone thinks he has pseudospoofed with tentacles, says that S.Boxx `slipped' when he `confused identities'. Why is this a `slip', Mr. May? What is your advice on how to avoid such a `slip'?
(Other evidence: same line lengths, same use of TeX-style ``quotes'' in messages, same use of no spaces between initials in names like "T.C.May," same florid languages, same emphasis on same issues, and, most tellingly of all, several "goofs" in which private messages to one or the other were quoted by the other, and even goofs within messages that alluded to himself as "Lance" or "Larry.")
the same list of circumstantial evidence could be built to associate szabo@netcom.com with T.C.May. In fact, I challenge Mr. May to say the following: I have never posted a message under the szabo@netcom.com name. And if he succeeds in doing so, I ask why he has refused to claim this publicly for months, despite ample opportunity and the urging of many outsiders.
several "goofs" in which private messages to one or the other were quoted by the other, and even goofs within messages that alluded to himself as "Lance" or "Larry.")
again, a `goof'. But it seems that only someone that believed that keeping identities *separate*, and *deceiving* people of their independence and uniqueness, would consider the S.Boxx prose `slips' or `goofs'.
I expect one day to hear Detweiler has shot and killed himself, or has shot and killed others, or is holding them hostage. I know the Colorado Cypherpunks group--which expelled Detweiler from their physical meetings and from their list--is fairly concerned about their security, and the security of Phil Zimmermann, who lives in Colorado and whom Detweiler alternately characterizes as "God" or as "Satan."
The Colorado cypherpunks is not even a half dozen people, and when I was kicked off `we' (at that time, `we' anyway) had had one meeting at a coffee shop. It is nothing but Nate Sammons and a pathetically lame list, and it was refreshing to be thrown off it, because it helped me be free of these petty, egotistical people, CA wannabes, and discover new enemies. There was no `expulsion', it was nothing but an egotistical dictator, very much similar to E.Hughes, throwing me off the list unilaterally and without telling me, secretly conspiring with the rest to do so, and lying about the events that led to my `expulsion'. As for my relationship with PRZ, the CA cypherpunks have no clue. As for `shooting and killing', I have a few things to say. (1) People who know me know that I am the most nonviolent person in the world. My writing may be violent by my body is not. (2) I do not own a gun or any other deadly weapon, contrary to virtually all the cypherpunks. (3) Mr. May announced publicly in the newsgroups that `I have a Gun' and indicated he would use it if I ever visited the CA area. If there is any paranoia about `shooting and killing' it is entirely his. (4) All the cypherpunks are nothing but stellar hypocrites when they complain of `death threats' in writing. The believe that, apparently, all messages are meaningless unless I type them. When I talk about their conspiracy I am lying, but when I am ridiculing their fears, it is `violent death threats' to be taken with the utmost seriousness, unequivocal proof that soon I am going to go off the deep end and take hostages or kill someone.
After the latest rounds of forged messages, with my name attached and with .sig block attached,
Mr. May, when he sees editorial cartoons in the newspaper, probably likewise considers them `forgeries'. He is incapable of understanding the distinction of truth and satire, having, like the rest of the CA psychopunks, stoned himself for years on lies. What Mr. May calls `forgeries' are actually carefully crafted insults and satire directed at the people most responsible for the Cypherpunk conspiracy, and masterpieces of art, as the enormous exploding S.Boxx following attests. In giving no respect to the Cypherpunk identities by ridiculing and misrepresenting their signatures, a karmic balance is achieved with their own disrespect for the honesty of trust of others in their routine, continual, persistent, unabated violations and embezzlements accruing from their own poisonous pseudospoofing. If anyone doubts my claims anywhere in this letter, please read Risks 15.25,15.27, and 15.28x, or ask Mr. May to provide the nonexistent letters that he refers to.
No an12070 messages have been seen by me for several days now, and Detweiler has made comments about how S. Boxx "told him" that his account has been stopped. Yeah, right.
Actually, I heard that S.Boxx is being held hostage or has been assassinated by cypherpunks. Or it could be that he hasn't been censored at all, but that I claimed that to show that Cypherpunks, such as T.C.May (who has admitted to requesting S.Boxx be censored) were the hypocrites who asked that he be. So that's the saga of T.C.May and the cypherpunks, the biggest Net Perversion to be born in cyberspace. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, cheap assassination rates. Higher Power:2**859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available.