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Access using a proxy 
by "Zaak - Zaako"＠linkpaks.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From: CJ (cj5000(a)post.com) >Subject: Unblocking sites so I can access? (Issue #422) --> I am currently living in a place where the ISP is blocking 50% of the web. I was told by someone that you can unblock these web sites by using a proxy, but I don't know what that means. I am wondering is there a way to get access to these sites? -- A proxy is easy to use if you use someone elses, they can be tricky to setup yourself. I have had very good results with Surfola. Basically you surf to their servers and then from there you surf Through/From their servers. I have several places I surf from that block content. Surfola easily bypasses them! Its also Free! You can also make money with them but I just use them to bypass anal retentive ISP/Corporate providers and because they allow me to surf anonymously! I have a detailed right-up on them at <a href="http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php"> http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php </a> See there for more info. If anything is not clear feel free to ask. (Email & Sign-up Links on http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php page) Zaak OConan Netrepreneur <a href="Http://LinkPaks.com">Http://LinkPaks.com</a> - Surf & Earn Guides <a href="Http://LinktoCash.com">Http://LinktoCash.com</a> - Internet Businesses for under $100 <a href="Http://ITeam.ws">Http://ITeam.ws</a> - The Hottest Product on the Net Today ++++ Next Answer - Same Question ++++

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Using pictures as links 
by moviebuff＠cliffhanger.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I'm changing my website and want to use pictures for the links to other pages. But, someone told me I should still put a 'click here' underneath all the pictures. To me, this removes all purpose of using the pictures. How can I get across that you click on the pictures to get to other pages without coming right out and saying so? For example, I have a page with actor and actress information and just want to have a picture of my favorite stars to click on and change the picture every couple of days. Mark moviebuff(a)cliffhanger.com ANSWERS:

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Using A Proxy To Visit Blocked Sites 
by "Wyn Publishing - wynpublishing"＠iname.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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Access using a proxy 
by "Zaak - Zaako"＠linkpaks.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From: CJ (cj5000(a)post.com) >Subject: Unblocking sites so I can access? (Issue #422) --> I am currently living in a place where the ISP is blocking 50% of the web. I was told by someone that you can unblock these web sites by using a proxy, but I don't know what that means. I am wondering is there a way to get access to these sites? -- A proxy is easy to use if you use someone elses, they can be tricky to setup yourself. I have had very good results with Surfola. Basically you surf to their servers and then from there you surf Through/From their servers. I have several places I surf from that block content. Surfola easily bypasses them! Its also Free! You can also make money with them but I just use them to bypass anal retentive ISP/Corporate providers and because they allow me to surf anonymously! I have a detailed right-up on them at <a href="http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php"> http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php </a> See there for more info. If anything is not clear feel free to ask. (Email & Sign-up Links on http://linkpaks.com/paidtosurf/Surfola.php page) Zaak OConan Netrepreneur <a href="Http://LinkPaks.com">Http://LinkPaks.com</a> - Surf & Earn Guides <a href="Http://LinktoCash.com">Http://LinktoCash.com</a> - Internet Businesses for under $100 <a href="Http://ITeam.ws">Http://ITeam.ws</a> - The Hottest Product on the Net Today ++++ Next Answer - Same Question ++++

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Using pictures as links 
by moviebuff＠cliffhanger.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I'm changing my website and want to use pictures for the links to other pages. But, someone told me I should still put a 'click here' underneath all the pictures. To me, this removes all purpose of using the pictures. How can I get across that you click on the pictures to get to other pages without coming right out and saying so? For example, I have a page with actor and actress information and just want to have a picture of my favorite stars to click on and change the picture every couple of days. Mark moviebuff(a)cliffhanger.com ANSWERS:

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by Lee James 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

irtheory-owner(a)yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list irtheory(a)yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:37:20 +0100 Subject: RE: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved. Reply-To: irtheory(a)yahoogroups.com I'd like to hear how children who werent old enough to pronounce the colour were 'reds' who were rightly tortured (apparently) in your view, as well as the many women raped and tortured at the hands of SOA graduates. I'd also be keen to see evidence of this free-market success of which you talk, because it isn't in central america for the countless millions in poverty. Before, a person encourages free-markets elsewhere, how about encouraging them in the United States in order to really test the theory and give these nations a chance of economic development. The three most successful industries in the united states (steel, agriculture and techonology/military) are all state funded and protected in a exceedinly 'socialist' manner. There is no evidence in Europe of development occuring in industry any other way either. The defence of America and by proxy Reagan's crime in Central America is alarmingly close to Hitler's defence of his Genocide and also Stalin's killing of counter-revolutionarys (if we hadnt done it they wou;d have killed more, theyre the threat not us etc). Exactly at which point does a war (any war) stop being defensive because according to the history books the US has never fought an aggressive war. I'm not sure that it is defensive to defend a country against its own people, when europe did so it was called colonisation. >From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> >Reply-To: irtheory(a)yahoogroups.com >To: irtheory(a)yahoogroups.com, cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net >Subject: [irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved. >Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:52:21 -0400 > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >At 6:11 AM +0000 6/13/04, Carmi Turchick wrote: > >Here is more about the connection between the death squads and the > >policy of genocide and our own American facility, the School of the > >Americas... > >Yawn. War, to paraphrase a famous American income-redistributionist, >ain't beanbag. > >Yes. We taught soldiers, hell, thugs, even, to kill commies. It was a >war. Remember? > >The commies were killing people too, remember? More to the point, >they wanted to kill lots more. Deliberately, or worse, through their >own ignorant mismanagement of the lives they would eventually have >total control of. > > >All those "innocent" people were either totalitarians or dupes. >Lenin's "useful idiots". Even the nuns. Even the bishops. Even the >nice Anglo church ladies from El Norte who thought that in a war >between Ghandi and, say, Stalin, Ghandi would win. Bambi vs. Godzilla >is more like it. Of course, like Lenin himself, ultimately, those >"idiots" were like Ghandi joining the war on Stalin's side. > >[Okay, so, in actuality, Ghandi *was* on Stalin's side, economically >and ideologically, at least, the world's most beatified useful idiot >in that regard. Certainly Nehru was on Stalin's team, explicitly so, >creating the world's second largest command economy after China's, >dooming tens of millions of his countrymen to famine, and most of the >rest to destitution -- for *decades* -- in the process, because food >prices were *calculated* by a committee somewhere instead of >discovered in a market like they're supposed to be, and because >cheaper, superior, foreign goods and services were legislated out of >Indian markets entirely. Except for the elite, of course...] > > >"Liberation" theology, remember that? ["Liberation" being yet another >communard verbal expropriation, like what they did to the word >"liberal". War is peace. Or, in the case of "liberation", and >"liberal", freedom is literally tyranny.] > >Remember Aristide's little ditty in praise of the "necklace"? > >Remember Ortega and the people whose property he expropriated, who he >jailed, and those small-businessman "counter-revolutionaries" he >eventually killed? He would have killed more if we'd let him. If >Reagan had let him. > >Don't think the "innocent" Allende would have been any different, >he'd already started the process of expropriation and confiscation of >people's livelihoods, and eventually, their lives, when, yes, >Pinochet took him out. Life is hard. War sucks. People die. > >And of course, there's the Sendero Luminoso, the "Shining" Path. Real >humanitarians. > >Oh. That's right. Butchers like the Sendero's Guzman, like Ortega, >or, these days, Chavez and Castro, are *heroes* to people like you. >"Freedom fighters," or some such emetic nonsense. I'm a functional >atheist (okay, a Unitarian; there's some pyroclastic irony for >you...), but one of the best things the Pope did -- after helping >first Thatcher and then Reagan *free* three-quarters of Eurasia, if >you now count India, and start what is an irreversible process in >China -- was to kill "liberation" theology in its metaphoric crib, >before it literally killed tens of millions of people, much more than >centuries of ignorance and cryptofeudal tyranny hadn't done already >in South America. (See, speaking of Guzman and Sendero, the works of >Hernando de Soto for more on that...) > > >A nation-state, if you remember your first political "science" class, >is about force and geographic monopolies thereof. Politics is about >who controls and spends the economic rents that a force-monopoly >violently expropriates from its citizenry, and about buying >non-violent acquiescence in that expropriation through "social" >programs and other forms of fraud, thus lowering the transaction cost >of what would have been a more violent act of theft. > >As Mancur Olsen said in "Power and Prosperity", a prince is a bandit >who doesn't move. > >Absent any *physical* brakes on his power -- be they economic or >violent -- whoever is in charge of a nation state, and whatever elite >he needs to keep himself in power, can do whatever they damn well >please. It is only an armed (first) and educated (second), and thus >*free* population that prevents them from turning into tyrants. >Stalin, the subject of "Power and Prosperity" -- and ultimate model >for erst-and-proto-tinpots from Santiago to Managua to Havana to >Caracas, from New Delhi to Baghdad, from Phnom Penh to Pyongyang -- >being the canonical example. > >Your heroes, from the "liberation" theology Church Ladies to Castro, >were about selling oppression to the masses. > >My heroes, certainly the people who ran, and, yes, those who >graduated from, the School of the Americas, thugs and all, were, >ultimately, on the side of good and right. And ultimately, by the >count of democracy versus tyranny in this half of the world -- more >important, by the count of free versus confiscatory >crypto-and-neo-feudal markets -- it looks like they won, so they were >on the right side of history as well. > >War ain't beanbag. Until we solve the problem of force-monopoly with >free markets someday, war, and monopolistic violence, is, >paradoxically, how we protect free markets, and, through them, >freedom itself. > >Irony, apparently, is abundant in the universe, and, like matter and >energy, force and fraud, it is conserved as well. > > >Cheers, >RAH > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQMxbPcPxH8jf3ohaEQIV1QCg3WCvUqbISoWl83PYkCi04IflyJsAoI8p >/FuTkpzHwSDUaTG392g2yuB1 >=nx0v >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >-- >----------------- >R. A. 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Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices
by Matthew Gaylor 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.iang.org/crypto_fiction/ Crypto Fiction Crypto novels are not that common. It's an esoteric subject that remains too small to even justify a niche title. Most of the treatments relate to only fringe interests. There is a bit of a revival in crypto interest within the 90's science fiction genre. This can be traced back to authors who are influenced by the net, and geographically, it's clear that the main stars in this revival hail from or are influenced by the bay area and the cypherpunks movement. For what it's worth, and to generate some commissions for Cryptix, I list here some crypto novels I've read. I rate them with bits of entropy, as a sort of reverse correlation with relevance. This rating isn't necessarily a view that this book is good or bad, just that it has a valued combination of readability and cryptology. If you're looking for a present for that pesky relative that keeps asking "so, what is it that you do?" then you may find the answer below. Cryptonominon The leading light in the crypto novel scene has to be Cryptonomicon. This book, the fourth by trail blazing net author Neal Stephenson, is recent, having been published in mid 1999, and remains the only financial cryptography novel I have come across. Cryptonomicon is an achievment, with a deserved 5 random bits of entropy, and it will become the novel against which all others are compared. In brief, Randy Waterhouse and his startup companions embark on laying fibre around the Phillipines. Whilst building, new opportunities arise, chief of which is the combination of a local Sultan who wishes to build a data haven, and a rumour of a mountain of lost gold. What lifts this book out of the ordinary, and indeed, camoflages the fairly simple plot, is the two intertwined threads separated by two generations. Randy's grandfather and a WWII team of crypto scientists work on dampening the Axis' ability to detect the Enigma cracks, coincidentally laying foundations for Randy's attempts to historically decrypt his forbears' trail. This historical story is fascinating, it takes the Enigma story well beyond what has been covered elsewhere. The crypto content is superb. Mathematical basies, Turing and his bicycle, entropy, ciphers, are all woven into the story in a fashion that anyone with high school mathematics could understand. Cryptonomicon has a deeper underlying significance that most will have written off as plot. Along the chase, Randy and his mates discover the opportunity of setting up a private currency, nominally based on the alleged gold. In crisis-ravaged Asia, where currencies fell as systemic failure swept through the banking system, gold- backed currencies, issued over the net, and cryptographically protected from all attackers, is the perfect entrepot forthe issuance of private money. Recall that private currencies disappeared about a century ago, as the newfangled Central Bank idea, born out of Britain, swept the civilised world to mark the 20th century as one of government money and government inflation. For various reasons which we'll gloss over here - read the book - the time of private currencies has come again. But it was not in the prediction of a new financial world that the subtelty of Stephenson's research, and indeed unnamed advisors, shows. It is in the fact that the model he presents for a gold-backed currency is state of the art, in an art that was forgotten a hundred years ago, and indeed was only poorly understood then. Readers could even be forgiven for accusing the art to be stateless, if it wasn't for the existance of at least one tiny Internet private currency, backed by gold. It was these guys, the e-gold private currency, who airshipped me a copy to read and respond. But there is no response possible, as Stephenson got it right. Prospective private currency issuers now have a novel that will save them from countless mistakes, and I now have an answer to that question, "so, what is it that you're doing that takes you so far from home?" Enigma In all the fictional writings of cryptology, the Enigma machine takes pride of place. Enigma, is no different, but touches little on the machine itself. Robert Harris, author of Fatherland, presents a story of spies and intrigue set amongst the paranoic secrecy of Bletchley Park. Like Cryptonomicon, the historical protagonist is a mathematician at the core of the code breaking effort. This story is cryptologically valuable for its description of Bletchley Park, even to the workflow and passage of the information through the now quaint series of human I/O devices, computers, and analysts. As a novel, it is well written and entirely readable, falling within the class of WWII / spies / detectives, and I rate it with 3 bits of entropy. The Last Lieutenant Corregidor features yet again in this novel about the collapse of the island fortress and the plight of the last remaining coding officer. Showing more of the Allies side, The Last Lieutenant, portrays a story of espionage against the communications infrastructure of the Americans in the Pacific. A lot of background, a lot of machinery, and an inside view of the messages sent. Little actual cryptography, but worth some 3 bits of entropy. If you like daring war stories, this one has it all! A Fire Upon The Deep I think Vernor Vinge would have to be my favourite science fiction author, just pipping out Stephenson. A Fire Upon The Deep is a tour de force of 90's science fiction. It actually has very little crypto in it, so it is hard for me to award it more than 3 bits of entropy. The main players ship out of a port with a third part of a one time pad. The other two parts ship via other means - a security precaution. The one time slice never makes it to its destination, but is used later in a last ditch effort to establish comms with the good guys, whilst being chased by the bad guys across the universe. This is not a funny book, but Vinge's humour comes through with a single crypto joke which still makes me laugh. To enjoy the joke, you'll have to buy the book. The Enigma This book is about the machine, and therefore deserves its title. Written by Michael Barak, The Enigma is the story of a con man who is offered a 'dirty dozen' deal: go to Europe and steal an Enigma, and all charges will be dropped. It's actually quite readable as a story, but the crypto component is low to non-existant, unless you like reading descriptions of how the Enigma was constructed. For its irrelevance to the search at hand, it only gets one bit of entropy, but read it nonetheless if you come across it (quite difficult as its out of print, I found my copy at Roy's book club). ### ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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CDR: Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Jim Choate wrote: > Money order sales are recorded on video camera. [snip] > > A check has your name and address. > > The only way to pay in cash is two either send it through the mail (you > do know about the cash sniffing dogs used at the UPS and airports don't > you?) or stop by in person. Which means that they'll have a receipt and > at least on person who has seen your face. So am I right in saying there isn't, and never really was, a way of making truly anonymous transactions? -------------------------------------- FREE ANONYMOUS EMAIL! Sign up now. http://www.subdimension.com/freemail

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New Security/Privacy Regs for Federal Agencies - OMB 7-16 - Over
by Government Best Practices Training Series 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

200 government execs in attendance Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:57:56 -0400 To: rah(a)ibuc.com ***Excellent networking opportunity for government support contractors and product suppliers ***See below for detailed list of speakers and early registrants. To subscribe to your complimentary copy of Homeland Defense Journal visit our home page at www.homelanddefensejournal.com. Homeland Defense Journal's AM*BriefingTM Strategies for Data Breach Prevention, Mitigation and Notification An In-depth Look at OMB M-07-16 July 18, 2007 Capital Hilton Washington, D.C. ***PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*** This event is NO longer taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. It will be held at the Capital Hilton. Registrations exceeded original estimates. ***Complimentary to Government Employees*** Keynote Speaker: Karen Evans, Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology, OMB About this Conference After multiple agency exposures to identity theft, in May 2006 President Bush created the Identity Theft Task Force to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for steps that the federal government could take to combat identity theft and provide recommended actions that could be taken by the public and private sectors. In April 2007 the task force submitted its plan to combat identity theft to the President. As a response to the plan, on May 22, 2007 the OMB released M-07-16, which requires federal agencies to develop and implement breach and notification policies within 120 days. M-07-16 requires that federal agencies develop notification policies that: Review existing requirements with respect to privacy and security Include existing and new requirements for incident and handling Include existing and new requirements for external breach notification Develop policies that concern the responsibilities of individuals authorized to access personally identifiable information With the agencies required to develop and implement policies and procedures in such a short period of time, the Strategies for Data Breach Prevention, Mitigation and Notification Briefing is designed to break down the requirements of M-07-16 and provide guidance and suggestions for agencies in developing policies and plans. You will be given a complete overview of the mandate and learn tactics and solutions available to develop policies in cost-effective ways that fulfill the requirements of the mandate and strengthen agencies' information systems and data. What You Will Learn - How to address the requirements of M-07-16 - Cost effective solutions and strategies to develop sound identity theft policies - How to train staff to adhere to new policies - Government, Industry, Analyst and Media perspective on identity theft and M-07-16 Who Should Attend - Security personnel responsible for collecting and maintaining identity information - Executive level managers & administrators: network, systems, infrastructure, and security - Executives responsible for implementing, planning or maintaining information systems - Federal, state and local managers with security responsibilities - Security infrastructure executives - IT public sector systems integrators Speakers - Karen Evans, Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology, Office of Management and Budget - Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security - Marc Groman, Chief Privacy Officer, Federal Trade Commission - Mischel Kwon, Department of Justice Early Registrants Include Organization/Company Title U.S. General Services Administration Agency Expert, Federal PKI U.S. Courts AO-OIT-IT Security Office EMC Corporation Area Manager, DoD U.S Census Bureau Assistant Division Chief CACI Assistant to DON CIO Mission Assurance Team Lead BoozAllenHamilton Associate FDIC Associate Director National Gallery of Art Associate General Counsel TSA Asst Chief Counsel, Information Law Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Asst. 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Re: Jim Bell "Disappeared" by Feds?
by eric＠badtux.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:10:27 GMT, Eric Cordian <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> wrote: >Bell has been jailed. Here we see the real use of Federal anti-stalking >laws - to protect government whores from the citizens they harrass. > >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40300,00.html Interesting. Couple of things: 1) Jim Bell dont come across as the brightest of bulbs. Of course, its difficult to tell whether this is true, or whether its just a smear job (inadvertant or otherwise -- Ive had my own problems with Wired reporters misquoting me in order to "add color" to their reporting). Still, publicizing a system for assassinating political figures, and expecting said political figures to abide by the 1st Amendment protections regarding free speech, is stupidity beyond stupidity. If the government wants to squash you, they can do so -- they can seize all your assets under RICO (including all assets that would be needed in order to hire a lawyer to get your property back), crooked cops can lie under oath and say they found drugs in your possession with little recourse, and innocent people are sent to jail every day because it allows some harried police lieutenant to close out a file and look like a hero to the general public for "solving a crime" -- according to one study by a university law school, up to 70 of the people convicted of crimes are actually innocent, and were convicted because they were (illegally) deprived of the opportunity to conduct a defense (due to rampant underfunding of public defenders offices, and the RICO statutes which allow the government to seize all funds that could be used to conduct a defense, most people who are arrested do not even get to see their lawyer before the start of the trial -- in blatant disregard of the Constitution of the United States). And nobody cares, because the police are careful to target "those" people -- people who are poor, who are ignorant, or whose actions can be easily spun to make them appear dangerous or insane. Jim Bell wants to take on the Feds? What a moron! 2) Jim Bell also comes across as rather paranoid. Of COURSE hes being observed (at least occasionally) by federal law enforcement agencies. He is an ex-con, for cryin out loud, whenever a law is broken, the law comes looking at ex-cons first cause theyre the most likely cause of a law being broken. Its not paranoid to notice this, but its certainly paranoid to take the actions he has taken about that observation. I guess being held on trumped-up charges for his first conviction (i.e., possession of household chemicals now illegal!) warped his head, but what did he expect when he published a paper describing a system for rewarding assassination of political figures? I mean, what, he thought the 1st Amendment was something other than toilet paper that law enforcement officers wipe their rears with every day? (Actually, they usually dont care about the 1st, its the 4th, with their unconstitutional seizures of property under the RICO statute, that they wipe their rears with every day, but still...). 3) He is being held without bail. This appears to be a new tactic used by law enforcement to punish people that they know they dont have enough evidence to convict. For example, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a student commented about the Columbine killings, "those kids were stupid, if they wanted to kill jocks they should have started at the gym, not at the library." He was jailed without bail on charges of "making threatening statements". His parents were irate, because typical punishment in North Carolina for first offense of "making threatening statements" is a $500 fine and probation. The judge and sheriffs office kept him jailed without bail as "being a dangerous threat", in full defiance of the Constitution of the United States and its constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and due process, because they wanted to "teach a lesson". They taught a lesson, alright -- thats one kid who will never trust government again. 4) Its interesting that federal law enforcement agencies view the identification of their officers as a threat. It reminds me of fascist police officers in Serbia who taped over their badges so that the demonstrators could not identify the people who were depriving them of their rights. It appears that even identifying and filing a public complaint against a federal law enforcement officer (i.e., publishing a copy of that complaint on your web site as well as via "official channels") could be construed as a "terrorist threat" under the federal statute that was quoted. I think that many Americans are rather sanguine about their freedoms. We have forgotten that only fifty years before, a government-sanctioned and government-enforced system of apartheid systematically and with full government force deprived civil rights from a full 1/5th of the population of the United States. We have forgotten that, only 30 years ago, citizens of the United States were being killed by the National Guard for the crime of being near a demonstration against a war they disagreed with. Freedom is not something that is built into our country. Freedom must be purchased with blood, the blood of four little girls killed by those who bombed a church in Birmingham Alabama, the blood of civil rights workers murdered in cold blood in Mississippi with the full knowledge of government officials of the State of Mississippi, the blood of anti-war demonstrators in Ohio. Today we have forever deprived a full 1/5th of the black male population of many cities of the right to vote, with full government sponsorship and enforcement, but for some reason nobody seems to see it because government has been careful to target "those" people, people whose skin color is "not like ours", those nasty smelly poor people, and other such "undesirables". Apparently Americans believe that civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution only apply if youre white and middle-class. I think that many Americans are also sanguine about their continued freedom. All I have to note is that in 1984, Yugoslavs rejoiced in the afterglow of the Sarajevo Olympics, a glowing testament to their democratic government and modern attitudes and sensibilities. Yugoslavia rejoiced in joining the community of modern European nations. Their booming economy even sold cars here in the United States (the infamous Yugo). A scant 10 years later, Yugoslavia was in the grip of a fascist dictatorship who used "ethnic cleansing" to tighten his grip on power, its economy was in ruins, and the nation had broken up into ethnic pieces warring upon each other. The lesson: a booming democracy can turn into a fascist dictatorship in almost no time at all. Whoops, I guess this message puts me on the governments "terrorist hit list". Note to feds -- the only guns I own are a couple of antique shotguns inherited from my father and my grandfather, the only dangerous chemicals I own are normal household cleaners, the only cyber-terrorism Ive ever advocated is the ghastly notion of calling public officials damned liars on the Web when they lie to us. I am a liberal in the classic sense, who believes that government has a purpose and is necessary for the furthering of the general good but that its powers must be limited and carefully controlled by the people in order to avoid turning into a fascist dictatorship that only pretends to be a democratic republic (thus my distaste when our government violates the Constitution of the United States with willful disdain). I am also a committed pacifist who believes that all killing is morally wrong, even when done in self defense or in war time (I do recognize that man is an animal who like all animals possesses a survival instinct and thus killing in self defense must be expected, but animal instinct is not a moral defense). Good luck painting me as a crazed Unibomber out to murder folks. -- Eric Lee Green There is No Conspiracy eric(a)badtux.org http://www.badtux.org

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