Declan McCullagh wrote:
Jonah, Contrary to what you claim, I'm not "trying to accomplish" anything except report the facts. ... Then CDT responded to my article publicly, incorrectly claiming that CDT did not embrace the harmful to minors "compromise." My post was to correct those inaccuracies and clear the air -- and, you'll remember I concluded by saying I hoped we could move forward to discussing Coats. You seem unable -- or unwilling -- to do that.
Has anyone noticed that the cycles of CDT intrusions into the CypherPunks list occurs with about the same frequency as the phone calls from the aluminum siding salesmen who call us in their search for old people with huddled life savings, struggling to be free? The underlying concept is the same. Once they stretch their scam a little too far, and get run out of town, the perpetrators move on to fresh territory. When they run out of new areas to run their scam, then they begin re-working old territory, starting with the areas where their targets are likely to have forgotten the details of their last scam. CDT should take a lesson from the aluminum siding salesmen, and change their name when they start a fresh round of scamming. ("No ma''m, we're the CD'T&A'. No connection to those scumbag, lying ratfuckers that suck the dicks of the Fascist powermongers. No...that was _another_ Jonah Seiger. I am trying to atone for his sins against my name by offering you a special deal on a revolutionary new product called VaporSiding." Right... What list subscribers need to understand is that the CDT recognizes the need to compromise on important issues, so that 'reasonable' people like themselves are not unjustly linked with terrorists like Tim May, who threaten the lives of judges four or five times a day. (Which we know, because Little Bobby Hettinga has been pointing his finger at Tim eighty times per post, reminding us of Tim's death threats against the OKC bombing judge, who Tim plans to slaughter at 4 p.m. next Thursday.) Tim May, JUDGE KILLER, sent a post to the list that quoted the passage that Louis F. Hettinga has been misrepresenting, only to have LFH and other list members (some of who should know better) continue to recycle/respond-to this misrepresentation of CONVICTED JUDGE MURDERER Tim May's words. Naturally, 'reasonable' organizations, such as the CDT, will need to distance themselves from CONVICTED JUDGE MURDERERS AND RAPISTS like Tim May, in order to get at the life savings of increasingly senile supporters, and be listened to seriously by those with whom they are seeking to compromise our freedom and privacy as a good- faith gesture to those who would frown on the CDT supporting those freedoms and privacies for even CONVICTED JUDGE MURDERING, RAPIST PEDOPHILE, DRUG-DEALING TERRORISTS such as Tim May. My respose to the CDT is thus: "Beat it, guys. The Electronic Fraud Foundation is working this side of the street. The Georgia Cracker remailer operators tried cutting our action on this list, but they quickly found that you can't type with broken fingers." TruthMonger "It's not VaporSiding until *I* say it's VaporSiding!"