James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
If someone was to hide a laptop in one of my cupboards, to steal such large amounts of information from my home network as to disrupt its functioning, I would take a sledgehammer to his laptop, and when he showed up to collect his laptop, a sledgehammer to him.
my intent is not to offend in saying this, though i think this situation may not be the situation most would encounter with on-site surveillance, in that a barrier would exist between bugs & procurement so that the sledgehammer-effect would have to occur by a different route. if it did go as you describe, most likely evidence would be shifted and you would be framed, either immediately killed, if not via 'suicide' by helpers, and anything you would do would be evaluated in one-sided terms legally, with removal of basic situational data that makes your viewpoint impossible to corroborate with evidence or others testimony, if you would survive an encounter with violent, aggressive, onsite corruption with the intent to bring you down via evidence, real or fabricated basically whatever you do would result in your being dead or sent away to prison, and likely include severe bodily harm either short term or long term in a prison or other environment to me that is more likely than anything else, if a personal encounter outside the law was involved, such that there are no rules, no legal framework to appeal to, just brute deliverance of power onsite, which tends towards the ~hegemonic police state of a onesided political takeover, that nightmare what is scary is that a piece of signed paper or secret agreement somehow could allow such dynamics to develop, yet which are not evaluatable by external truth or accountable to truth beyond a particular (private) self-interest that can be warped, skewed, political, yet stand in for 'government' this would be tyranny then. not far from having guns removed from residents, etc. no defense, just submission, subjugation to corrupt authority, baseness as evaluation of worth - conformance or not consider a different scenario. everything is tapped, you have sledgehammer in apartment or house, and then have to interface with *bureaucracy* to try to deal with situation, smash skulls as payback. what stands between you and justice would be piles of signed paper, denials, ignoring of issues and pleas for information or rule-following, then followed up by pure corruption: your mail is tampered with and lost, you lose your job, your checks or payments go missing, accounts are hacked, there are gossip and whisper campaigns about you heard all over within earshot, people saying you are crazy, you need psychiatrist, spouse wants a divorce or requires you to get psychiatrist, go on medication. problems begin with plumbing or electrical requiring expensive fixes or repairs, car continually starts to break down and cannot be repaired successfully. noises start in your environment that keep you awake and thus you cannot get enough sleep, your health plummets, massive depression and also extreme paranoia set in, threats are delivered via phone and email about assassination and physical harm, you are robbed or things are stolen from you, documents go missing, evidence of black bag job with things amiss in environment, computer stops working, lose electronic files, records needed to prove certain information, you question your own memory, your own sanity, people stop talking to you because they are afraid or turn on you, increasingly isolated, suicidal thoughts impossible to ignore, there is no information available about what to do in such situations because it is considered unreal in 'democracy', any truth you say that is out of line threatens your survival and livelihood in surrounding system, further marginalized, your anger functions against you, you become more and more ill as the stress takes its toll, needing to internalize all the hate and violence versus project it outward, thus the condition of being peaceful is at the cost of interior violence, either denial or taming or holding back rage, any error you make can be used to prosecute you to the fullest extent by political enemies and this is going on in the background- and nothing you can do can change this basic situation. and all of it exists because of signed pieces of paper, agreements, allowing this power-situation to exist/persist, and yet no one observes 'truth' beyond their private relativistic boundary, now you are on the outside of in this way, corrupt police or TLA could set up camp in the house or apartment next door and beam hostile energy into your domain, and by privacy law, you can do nothing to stop them, even if they are attacking you, trying to kill you and influence and deteriorate your functioning - and anything you do against them is a violation of their rights (Jim Bell situation, seemingly), such that law is onesided, not observed by oppressors yet the persecuted are held accountable to it, though within warped terms such that it is a trap, a ruse, to enforce injustice and malicious authority structures over and against citizens and populations, to subjugate and control for private self interest of hegemonic group they *legally* can get away with murder, and there is nothing you can do -within language- to reason otherwise or protect yourself, words are just words, the truth is inaccessible because it is neither defined or controlled by you, they _own the interpretive rights as government connected entities of an established structural falsity, an ideological position of authority beyond all law that becomes law by fiat of action believed justifiable in private warped relativistic terms, where bias is normalized as POV parallel to this is a situation of exchange, as it relates to trust and truth and information. economics today and commerce provide direct corollary to this situation in more direct terms, of this corruption it is the past it is unlikely someone would be able to sell a rotten bushel of wheat as if it was a bushel of fine quality. and if they went around doing this to customers, the customers would likely require that their money be returned because of an unfair exchange, if not the person put out of business in other words, a merchant or other person selling shoddy goods then would have an implicit relation to the purchaser as part of the exchange -- shared truth -- that the goods are of a certain quality, and if not a ripoff would occur. and it would seemingly also involve vengeance if a swindle, such that the seller could be hanged or killed as a form of communal justice, for cheating/theft would be a crime in terms of unfair exchange. people likely have been killed throughout history for selling broken goods or misrepresenting items in terms of exchange, where this unevenness requires evening itself back out to return to civil relations or parity between the two parties on a basis for shared truth and trust, that what is sold is what is purchased. they money is for a quality bushel of wheat, not a rotten bushel unless this is otherwise noted, and the exchange rate modified accordingly to those parameters into the 20th century, say post-Crystal Palace world exhibitions of invention, tinkerers and hobbyists going to stores for supplies -- presumably if going to purchase magnets for an experiment or device, upon purchase they would be magnets and not some fraudulent non-magnetic imposter material and if this did occur, likely legal recourse or other justice would be available, via shared sensibility that a person does not do this to another person, based on shared ethics, morality, connected with law and fair exchange. the offender or cheat or crooked person could be imprisoned or worse, murdered by a vigilante group or person perhaps, as a form of justice if the law did not adequately address the unjust situation. in that morality or truth can trump what is recognized or allowed within certain parameters and a gap can develop, in particular via language that does not adequately account for or model given situations- thus requiring interpretation or external analysis and accounting to balance the dynamics and return to a shared framework of justice, based on shared truth, the basis for shared exchange somewhere approximately with computers, it became legal to make and sell shoddy goods, and this became protected by law, by legal interpretation, by signed documents that map to protected views and positiosn of authority. in this way, unequal exchange was normalized, where an item could be sold 'broken' or could be made to break, and thus this corruption has been institutionalized as its own business practice, a way to increase profit (via upgrades or fixes, repairs, replacement, new devices). in doing so, the issue of quality has vanished in exchange, so that the money that is traded for a given item is not purchasing something in proper working condition that is made to sustain itself in these parameters, and instead of a clockwork device that automatically winds down into disrepair, designed this way, requiring maintenance to upkeep- or even, allowed to be made dysfunctional via updates hidden or not, that can limit or disallow functioning of the device via a deteriorated/devolved condition, and this has become the cornerstone of 'new economy', 'communication', 'education', 'careers', 'development', 'social relations', and so on- the economy itself. what protects this process are signed pieces of paper, that prevent this abuse from being dealt with fairly in terms of its being a massive swindle that takes money via deceptive and fraudulent practices and removes power and functioning from citizens and moves this to those in positions of authority, at the top of the pyramid scheme, who 'mismanage' the entire works as a giant malfunctioning organism that they are in control of, via schemes that operate and function beyond the law, yet as the law it is not possible to 'reason' or argue with the legal documents because they are not based in truth, only in power that maps into money as the embodiment of truth-- such that the language is hollow, it is only about maintaining power and authority over interpretation, and not of observing shared truth of the situation. it is biased, onesided, ideological, and must be 'signed' to make it legal, to have or use tools and equipment on these corrupt terms, aka- user agreements. thus the unequal exchange is thus institutionalized, normalized, and becomes the foundation for a new bubble society & civilization operating within these corrupt terms -- protected and defended by ungrounded language that has its signs substitute for truth, this [signage] becoming the one-way administration and management of ideological power that is borne from the corrupt code of the US constitution as legal right of citizens, which instead due to its gender-bias, maps into both private wo|man and corporations as having their allegiance only to themselves and not public humanity, which then can be exploited to the utmost, notably within basic exchange with commerce in the everyday-- much sold is subverted, corrupted, broken by design or manufacturing via sabotage, where people are paying for something they are not receiving -- yet there is no legal recourse to this due to the shield of language devoid of truth, that is not beholden to being accounted for in its truth, outside or beyond this private framework of authority and power over it and others, institutionalized by pieces of signed paper that do not observe truth beyond those views and beliefs that benefit their own interests firstly. this is religious, yet devoid of morality and ethics beyond a context and framework of money- money is the core, yet it is 'nothing' without truth, yet stands in for it as sign, thus money verifies and legitimates the correctness of this practice as it validates beneficence of onesided profit in exchange, a warped view of capitalism this extends into issues of security. planting bugs in equipment to protect the sacristy of the state (that is, its commitment to truth) is one thing. breaking equipment so people cannot communicate or use tools to improve their situation, because it threatens self-interest and control of hidden managers is another. signed documents or language protects these activities without holding them accountable so both purposes fall under the same language, yet different in interpretation, what truth is allowed or denied, is it human or antihuman values administering the policies and attacks on privacy, etc. and language itself, disconnected and nonobservant of truth, is just communication as babble in turn, as it does not ground to the shared reality that exists, and instead falls into some lines of force of bias, of some fragmentary view or another, contained within layers and layers deep of lies and bullshit, and this is where violence and laws and intimidation are occurring, and yet cannot be mediated in terms of reason with institutions signing off on tactics via secret meetings or proceedings -- the feedback is not about 'truth', it is about maintaining power and authority, removed of accounting for external truth beyond what is beneficial to those in the shared set or committee or demographic, profiting from it you cannot get anywhere with logically reasoning truth in this environment or bureaucracy. this then is an extreme form of mental violence, emotional and psychological violence, that cannot be dealt with, and yet must be grounded by individuals- where basically people are constrained and mute, unable to communicate or reason about what is going on because they lost fundamental truth with themselves by adapting and integrating the lies into their own lies and likely benefiting along the way, until some day it goes against their interests, large or small, though will only grow the more out of phase it gets anything the person does is considered or interpretable as violence against the corrupted state that can and will and does *retaliate* in response to any slight, as if extremely petty, accounting for any error while subsisting on this state of error to rule over everyone captured within the concentration camp it creates, citizens prisoners within a state that does not represent them though also seeks their demise by systematic, manufactured means. surveillance, psychiatric or other drugs, illiteracy, toxic food, toxic air, toxic shelter, toxic social relations, sociopathic media, etc. anything you do against its wishes is prosecutable via onesided 'processing' of warped views, madness itself that is in charge and judge, surrounding jury of invaders and traitors, and active executioner, passive & active signed paper and bureaucracy beat sledgehammer every time no truth, no accountability to logical empirical reasoning of situation in constitution context, ones (T) and zeros (F) then it is _impossible to get framework for fairness mathematically impossible. insane violence, this is the state is mad and beyond any law, and functioning against citizens in dictatorial mode, purging dissenters it can legally be dealt with via original code: military takes over control of the state, martial law, constitutional convention -> new US constitution within human parameters of 3-value/N-value logic v. binary interest of private gender to represent all (first thing would be refunds for the epic PC swindle) -- this a joke of course, meant for the lawyers :)
Swartz committed a crime against people more powerful than he was, incorrectly thinking he was more powerful than they.
only more powerful on paper, in terms of money. Swartz had truth on his side, the basis for true power whereas documents devoid of it, or money without truth backing it - as a form of power - is only virtual, and may exert power only insofar as this condition is not accounted for bongo bingo ringo