gee, Alan, maybe I was a bit hasty calling you a liberal! but at least your friends got a laugh out of it. they say as you get older, you are supposed to mellow... Tim --any comment, are you more or less irrascable? I know my answer! looks like the Telegraph is retracting the stories in a big way, including the possibility PRZ may be a hero for freedom! This is a contest: 1. "The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws.... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender.... The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting laws as are not in consistent with the Constitution of the United States.... The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States. "...Shall we be such fools as to be governed by its laws, which are unconstitutional? No! ...The Constitution acknowledges that the people have all the power not reserved to itself. I am a lawyer, a big lawyer and comprehend heaven, earth, and hell, to bring forth knowledge that shall cover up all lawyers, doctors and other big bodies. This is the doctrine of the Constitution, so help me God. The Constitution is not law to us, but it makes provisions for us whereby we can make laws. Where it provides that no one shall be hindered from worshipping God according to his own conscience, is a law. No legislature can enact a law to prohibit it. The Constitution provides to regulate bodies of men and not individuals." 2. "If we have to give up our chartered rights, privileges, and freedom, which our fathers fought, bled, and died for, and which the constittion of the United States and of this state guarantee unto us, we will do so only at the point of the sword and the bayonet." !!! the test: who said this, and when, and where is it referenced? I haven't figured out a prize, but maybe a character mode face --how about Bubba? or even better yet, King Hillary, standing up to give the oath before Congress tomorrow --do you think she will finish the oath as written: "So help me God" -? too bad I do not even own a television (snake oil makes me break out in hives); Hillary should be great as my money says she will still lie --until she learns that the only way of not trapping yourself in contradictions eventually means your tell the truth On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
The reporter's slander against Zimmerman was not accidental, or the result of ignorance. Calling someone a Naxi sympathizer is not something that one should do without a smoking gun.
I agree, except the press forgets rights in favour of scandal which means money, and money begets money (advertisers).
This act of aggression against cypherpunks, attempts to box us into a corner. Our enemies want to keep us on the defensive. In that context, any and all energy we spend on "educating" and "correcting" is self-defeating. The hoplophobe lobby has shown, that enemies of freedom will not permit themselves to be "corrected". They will merely escalate the rate and size of their lies. Before slanders about "cop-killer bullets" could be corrected, they had moved onto "assault weapons".
We need to find a way to take back the initiative. We need to find a way to put the fear of God into liers. Violence won't work, since they are capable of human-wave attacks.
I honestly don't know what reporters and editors fear the most. But, even a snake can be trained, if you can pinpoint the proper negative feedback.
advertising dollars going down the drain. litigation, even if frivolous against corporate advertisers for supporting falsehoods and innuendos which will destroy the american way of life. Stockholder lawsuits are often the most effective. I do not like the "means" of U.S. Courts, but they are always using the courts against us, so turnabout is fair play. attila
Alan Horowitz alanh@norfolk.infi.net
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