The thoughtful update reminder of John Gilmore recently forwarded by RH from Cryptography is apt: advanced resistance is essential, do not succumb to the allure of cooptation, or, as some might say, throw bigger rocks, forgo bigger bucks. As a contrarian rich man might belabor. Jim makes good use of his federally-financed scientific investigation, researching, writing, seething with revenge, beseeching the unbound to come awake from dogmatic slumber. Another in the ancient tradition of outsider preparing the burial ground for the numbnuts who believe they will rule forever. Would he have been smarter to take a job in a deadening lab or corp to feed the maw of useless inventions or, worse, war-killing chemicials, explosives, platforms for standoff murder? MIT has excelled in producing such brilliant slaves to the mighty and almighty dollar, and young Jim was condemned by educational testing to being imprisoned as an obedient brain. Chomsky, yes, Chimsky to the numbnuts, is forever on the verge of having his parole revoked for violating norms of obedience, except MIT needs at least one freedom fighter to offset the tens of thousands of highly trained cretins who welcomed Fautian fellowships of lifetime sentences, with plenty of time to wonder what the fuck happened to the promises made and never fulfilled. MIT is only one of the bait and switch centers of knowledge who recruit the young then lobotomizes them. Jim said he was not feeling well that day so missed the mandatory brain elision. Jeff Gordon and lawful simians might well see that the valiant dissident is officially neutered by 2012. Cost: a mere 50 bucks for an inmate snitch to chasm a noggin. A few days ago an accused Russian spy said it best, "when I was in prison only then did I feel free, those outside do not know they are in prison." A lot more could be said along these lines, channeling TCM, PGP fucked, cpunks fucked, crypto fucked, anonymizers fucked, Tor fucked, off-shore finance fucked, anonymous payment fucked, privacy fucked, fucking had won by 2000, the fake versions repackaged to commercially fuck citizens by governments, corporations, NGOs and Wikileaks. So Jim Bell is no different than the others except he knows he's in prison on the dole at taxpayer expense rather than at locked up at Lockheed Martin, Intel, MS, IRS and kind. Thanks Jeff, now eat your IRS shit.