Cypherpunks FAQ

[Dale Thorn]

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.