Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Toto wrote:
The primal instinct of those with interest in 'control' is centered around the need for 'total' control. The history of dictators in general has shown more than a few who have allowed the sheep to escape from their pens while they were fixated on chasing down the few 'black sheep' that had strayed from their control. The CypherPunks list is a prime example of this. John and Sandy became so fixated on their attack on Dr. Vulis (and subsequent 'dissenters') that they eventually lost control of the other sheep in the fold who were willing to go along with a 'moderate' abrogation of their right to free speech by the censoring of only the 'black' sheep.
Take no offense, but why nobody thought about an obviously more likely conclusion: that it is Dr. Vulis who was, say, hired by Detweiler to destroy cypherpunks. I personally find the above unlikely, but at least more likely than all other suggestions (which I think are an example of the delusion of grandeur).
Remember the movie Die Hard (#1)? Remember what the wife said about how her husband would drive people stark, raving mad? I humbly suggest by analogy that it was me, since that is my effect on a lot of people, particularly (and especially) the John and Sandy types.