Personally, when I email politicians and the like, I usually use anonymous remailers, including the Georgia Cracker, so that I don't have to worry about being discriminated against and/or investigated and/or imprisoned for being afflicted with a physical and mental condition which causes me great discomfort when I am forced to tell polite lies under the guise of free speech.

Remailers are here to help the weak against the powerful. I use em 10 times a day.

In short, a ratfucker is a ratfucker is a ratfucker, and if anyone objects to being called one, then they should make an effort not to be one, rather than calling for my head on a platter because I call a spade a spade (or a "fucking shovel").

Damned right.

Two nights ago I began to teach my niece and her high-school girl friend how to use remailers for anonymity to communicate with others in a manner that will not leave them vulnerable to tracking/stalking by strangers.

Good Ideas... How about publishing how to use remailers and post it to a high school Bulletin Board?

If someone wants to spam me, or threaten me, or whatever, through the use of anonymous remailers, fine--I have a delete key and I have mail filters.

A many a Christian bunghole forgets that instead of forcing their god down people's throats, (Tyranny of the MINORITY) they should make an effort to realize there's such a thing as the real world, were god doesn't matter to some people.

Every time some Nazi piece of shit announces his or her intention to "protect" somebody, my freedom, privacy and human rights seem to get thrown in the trash.

Yeah, "We gotta protect the children from the pedophiles and cypherpunks!" I've heard shit like that often from politicians.

I'm growing tired of those who want to lock all of the doors on the InterNet and control the keys so that the citizens will be imprisoned behind an ElectroMagnetic Curtain where they are only allowed to travel at the discretion of a higher authority.

Damn right again.

My advice to well-meaning fascist censors is to stay the fuck out of the InterNet regulation business, because there are too many people on the InterNet who have experienced its freedom and who will no go easily into the dark night.

Damn right for the third time.

I was in Poland shortly after the fall of The Wall, and was talking to a lady who was describing how hard life had become in the resulting "chaos of the new." I asked her if she thought that the citizens would return to the former political system if conditions got bad enough. She said, "Over my dead body."

Which describes my similar views of the growing socialism in America.

Someone wants to shut down your remailer? Fine. I'll start one up. They want to shut down my remailer? Fine, but what about the Eternity Servers? Don't know about the Eternity Servers? They are waiting to route around the damage caused by shutting down remailers, and there is another technology waiting to replace the Eternity Servers if they get shut down.

If they knock em out, another one just takes over and fills in. Kinda like Dynamic Routing.

I, for one, am not going to stand by listlessly while fascists attempt to build an ElectroMagnetic Curtain around me. I have a byte, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Heheh, "Take a byte out of Net.fascists"