wars of attrition & reverse rubber hose & the ineffectiveness of direct lethal violence against the state

[Tyler Durden]

No, I'm not talking about Baseballbatting cops and Marines for the most 
part. I AM talking about baseballbatting the TLA and Patriot Act 
paperpushers and others who file motions or otherwise do a lot of the 
day-to-day "innocuous" interfacing-with-the-real world activities. 
Look...most operations are not black bag and field these days. Make that 
layer think about whether what they're doing is worth having broken limbs, 
and everything gets a lot more difficult.

Look, if you're a small ISP and a couple of TLA clerks come demanding info 
about who's looking at what, tell them you can only hand over the records in 
person and then when they show up break an arm or leg or two. You'll be glad 
you did, and you can bet those clerks aren't going to do it again without a 
real Operation, which is a lot more costly and a LOT more visible.

-TD


>From: coderman <coderman at gmail.com>
>To: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
>CC: measl at mfn.org, cypherpunks at jfet.org
>Subject: Re: wars of attrition & reverse rubber hose & the ineffectiveness 
>of direct lethal violence against the state
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:21:32 -0800
>
>On 3/8/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > ON THE OTHER HAND, one does't need huge numbers of people wielding 
>baseball
> > bats...
>
>i like to think you don't need any bats at all; waging direct lethal
>violence against the largest and best equipped military in the world
>(esp. adding up police, swat, n.guard, military, etc) fuels their
>propaganda machine and gets you crushed like an ant under foot.
>
>bomb throwers and assassins get no sympathy from the public no matter
>justified your perceived grievances.
>
>cutting at the heart of this nation-scale responsibility diffusion
>machine requires taxing communication and commerce engines which make
>its very existence possible.  this tax is applied in the form of
>continued and targeted infrastructure disruption against those
>entities which are refusing and deflecting oversight and
>accountability for their actions, and all those who serve them
>directly or indirectly.
>
>punks with portable saws and thermic lances slicing fiber and junking
>equipment is much more palatable to the public when used against
>entities already perceived unpopular and abusive to fundamental
>rights.  we've already talked about data mining and critical
>infrastructure analysis to direct such attacks in the most effective
>manner possible.
>
>although somehow i think this will get you a more severe response than
>killing random yes men (despite the fact this is limited to property
>damage alone).
>
>hmmm, the information required to organize such efforts would be a
>good fit for the blacknet.