--- John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

The FBI continues to claim Jim Bell is a WMD threat despite having no case against him except in the media, but that conforms to current FBI/DHS policy of fictionalizing homeland threats.

http://www.edgewood.army.mil/downloads/bwirp/mdc_appendix_b02.pdf

See page 16.

This document was initially prepared in June 2002, updated in June 2003.

Interesting that you say the "FBI/DHS" have a policy of "fictionalizing" [homeland] "threats", but suggest that Jim Bell is a victim of such fictionalization rather than an example of a fictionalised threat. Probably back in about 2001, my Government Cynicism Threat and Alert System(tm) was upgraded from a rating of Moderate to Near Total Cynicism. Consequently, I re-assessed the words I had read concerning the Jim Bell case and decided that he was a fake threat designed as input to the legal/policing system in order to push it in a number of well-defined directions, tending of course towards tyranny. Nothing that I have seen or heard of since, directly related to Jim Bell or otherwise, has led me to believe anything other than threats of the kind that Mr. Bell are supposed to pose are nothing more than sophisticated and well orchestrated frauds. In fact, even such incidents as the Adobe PDF kerfuffle including Dmitri Skylerov and a cast of pseudo-hacks in the tech press are indicative of the degree to which the government and certain segments of the industry and online community are trained to march in lock-step to the tunes as they are called by certain special interest groups. Perhaps the RAND institute might be characterised as one of the organisations that might be said to steer broad trends in fields and strategic industries of interest to government control-freaks and would-be plutocrats. Mind you, I am not necessarily the best or most objective source when it comes to the analysis of such issues. As *some* of you know, I allege a variety of real and utterly indefensable wrongdoings on the part of various police and government-related officials, but as yet have seen not the least bit of support come my way despite the value of some of the work that is at risk. This is in contrast to petty crap like the RSA script on a T-shirt bullshit that has previously occupied so many people's attentions, not to mention media coverage (like "Wired"). But perhaps I am merely not worthy, and that my thoughts on various matters cannot be trusted, even when they are relevant. Fraud, after all, is a rather serious charge. If one is accusing the Massey Fergeson of the Industry of perpetrating a massive fraud, then I suppose one requires rock-solid evidence -- which I admit I cannot possibly produce at this time. Regards, Steve ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca