On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Len Sassaman wrote:

I'll inevitably be accused of being cowardly or selfish for switching my system over to middleman mode. To the cypherpunks making those accusations, I ask: Do you run a remailer?

your showing a level of concern which is understandable. but what i see is a simple fact. people are afraid of their governments - and we all know governments are run by monsters these days and few people will stand up to monsters. i do however find it very entertaining to watch US politicians speak on the issue. your political infrastructure is out of control and as a result anything significant can happen as a response to this unfortunate act. martial law is a definate possibility if this happens again. now the world is a very bad place. one thing i find insulting from all the newscasts is us politicians claiming that freedom and democracy have enemies - which is the ongoing retoric. the real question is why did this happen. or another question is why were their celebrations on the streets of china and most of the arab world. i don't think the people on those plains were enemies of freedom or democracy. people who have freedom, liberty, and democracy do not have to resort to suicide missions to get attention. people who resort to these methods have lost hope and have no other means of addressing thier concerns. according to the fbi there were 12 to 24 people in all involved. in my opinion they were lost soals who appointed themselves judge, jury and executioners. these people yesturday delivered a verdict - which in all amounted to the execution of 50,000 people. now that we know the verdict the only outstand question is what were the charges? why did these people do this? what was their motivation? so far i have not figured that one out. sure arabs are dancing in the street - their happy - poor arafat was doing penance today by giving blood. and i understand the japanese red army is also being blamed for this. but all these claims so far amount to little frills here and their to enhance the show. i have yet to receive a clear explaination on what drove these people to do this tragedy. regards joe -- The dot.GOD Registry, Limited http://www.dot-god.com/