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Re:not actually a monopoly
Only if that piece of paper is urgent enough:
http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/techno/postal/express.html
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Re:USPS does a very poor job
Not only can a company be shut down for competing with the USPS, the post office can fine you for using UPS and FedEx for mail they think isn't "URGENT" enough.
http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/techno/postal/express.html
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For the history files
I don't know enough to say who's right, but here's Phil Zimmermann's acount of PGP history. Also check out Adam Back's PGP timeline, which he warns is probably inaccurate. Microtimes columnist's recollections of PGP history.
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Re:"Throw-down" gunsBTW, I forgot to thank you for the link you provided, it was an interesting read. However, if you think that could happen in America today, you're crazy. These citizens would be labeled as violent ( probably rascist, as that seems to be of the standard media whipping boys ) militia and probably slaughtered wholesale. Hell, the federal government slaughters people who might even be thinking about armed insurrection ( I seem to recall a certain town about 150 miles down the road from me, where they burned a compound to the ground with Bradley tanks - go watch footage from non-American news teams that show the truth, while American news stations said the Waco compound was burned by the occupants ). Another fine example would be Ruby Ridge. I know those are overused examples, but I'm too tired to go dig any more up ( gotta get back to work... ).
As much as it saddens me to say this, but I think America is too far gone down the road of madness and self-delusion for anything short of a violent revolution to fix this country. The right-wingers are happy to let corporations destroy the economy, the earth, and everything else as long as their fat cat buddies get rich, and the left-wingers are so wacko that they want to give my entire fucking paycheck to immigrants that can't even learn the language, let alone contribute to the society, or to gun-toting gangster wanna-bes with a bunch of gold teeth and crack babies. My children will probably have the dubious pleasure of watching this country disintegrate, a la Roman empire, or burn out in an orgiastic frenzy of fascist warfare, ala Germany.
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Re:Why I Love the ACLU
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Re:Ooooh.
Imagine a house protected with this stuff and a SWAT team trying to save a child from being killed by his mentally-disturbed dad.
I bet this guy sure wished he had an armored house when the police snipers you're so enamored with dropped by to murder his family. -
reminded me of this other incident
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Re:horrible bias in article blurb! tsarkon reportsAd-Hominem attacks on my. You assault me and insinuate that I don't have my own opinions and you also refer to another individual, Rush, as a nutcase in another Ad-Hominem assault. You have no right to imply that my thinking isn't self derived. Also, you are saying its okay for a journalist to preamble a story with Biased opinions, but dissent to those is being a "nutcase."
You are also a dangerous individual; you are working against your own freedom.
Are you telling me Randy Weaver's family and dog were not executed by the Federal Government.
Wrong: http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/firearms/en force/rubyridge/
"In a 1993 trial, Randy Weaver and his friend were found innocent of weapons and murder charges. Weaver was found guilty of not appearing in court on the original charges."
Are you telling me that a Congressman from Okalahoma City doesn't think the final story is true?
Wrong:
(The following statement with attachments was issued by Texas freshman Congressman Steve Stockman regarding a mysterious fax message his office received just as a bomb exploded at an Oklahoma City federal building. Also attached is a memorandum Stockman sent to Attorney General Janet Reno a month before the bombing inquiring about possible planned raids on "citizen's militias." In the memo, Stockman questioned the advisability and legality of the possible planned raids, suggesting that "a bloody fiasco like Waco" could result. A final attachment consists of a statement by an FBI spokesman that the Congressman's office acted properly in their handling of the fax.)
Are you telling me that Elian Gonzalez wasn't deported to a communist country the US will not even buy a cigar from?
Do you trust your government? Read about Waco here and then tell me:
http://tcnbp.tripod.com/wacoandme.htm
You polarize your political dogma between right and left, GOP/DEM. They are both wrong, they are wrong for America. They are thieves and the fact you clearly use Ad-Hominem attacks against one side of a battle on which both sides are culpable for destroying rights is wrong. It is every American's duty to transcend being polarized by political propaganda machines one both the left and the right.
Tell my why the profile for the Unabomber was COMPLETELY WRONG:
The profilers were way off the mark in their predictions. The FBI profile of the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski ) was
- late 30's or early 40's (Kaczynski was 53 when arrested);
- white male, 5'10"-6' tall, 165 pounds, with reddish-blond hair, a thin mustache and a ruddy complexion (Kaczynski is a white male, 5'8", weighed 143 when arrested, with brown hair, bearded and pale skin);
- a blue collar worker with a high school degree (Kaczynski hadn't had a job in the last 25 years and has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in addition to being a graduate of Harvard University);
- a meticulously organized person, reclusive and having problems dealing with women (Kaczynski was a recluse who apparently did not deal with women at all, and he was slovenly and unkempt).
FNORD this - late 30's or early 40's (Kaczynski was 53 when arrested);
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Re:Nothing new... SteveJackson games anyone?
It had something to do with the fact that Steve Jackson was producing a Cyberpunk game.
More info:
http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/express/tec hno/jackson/
http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
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Re:Article has wrong focus
Right, because Janet Reno was so much better.
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Re:Isn't this such a sad sight?
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Re:No thanks
You're perfectly safe until you actually build a bomb, start your own little chemical war with chlorine or go nuts with your shotgun.
Tell that to Randy Weaver's wife and son. Or Donald Scott.
Fact is that law enforcement goes off half-cocked way too often. I'm generally a big supporter of federal and local cops but they do make mistakes and "cowboys" have often ruined the lives of innocent people. Inviting more police attention to yourself is downright crazy even if you are innocent.
No, they would have to prosecute you and show concrete evidence that you are dealing/using drugs.
Well, they can actually seize quite a lot of your stuff without any kind of trial. Read up on asset seizure laws. It's amazing what they can get away with. (I know that some of these laws have recently been changed or stricken, thankfully, but I don't know the details.)
I can really understand the attraction to thinking "it's OK, it's for my own good and nothing bad could ever come of it." But if you do a little research you'll quickly see that it's a difficult position to defend. Terrible things happen to people all the time at the hands of the state. As citizens it's our right and duty to keep the government on its toes and not budge an inch unless it is 100% reasonable to do so.
The "slippery slope" is one hell of a cliche, but that doesn't make the slope any less slippery. Read my sig. Grok it. It's the truth.