A New HOPE on the Horizon

double-oh three writes "It's an even numbered year, and that means that 2600 is holding the party again this summer. The 5th HOPE conference has been announced and scheduled for July 9th to 11th(a Friday-Sunday weekend), again at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. This year's 'theme' for the conference is Propaganda, and if this is anything like H2k2, it'll be by the phone companies. And for those of you who are clueless, here's a roundup of the last HOPE con."

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Have fun, kids

[Otter]

And for those of you who are clueless, here's a roundup of the last HOPE con.

And for those of you who are over 14, it's time to start applying your meager skills towards doing something useful with your life instead of writing "manifestos" denouncing the phone companies for stifling your creativity and fawning over some relic who exploited a default root password in 1986.

Re:HOPE

[`Sean]

> Any how, I hope the feds will be in attendance and taking notes on who shows up at this "conference".

I personally hope that many feds are there. At previous HOPE conferences I attended, it was a pleasure to be able to sit down with law enforcement agents from various three-letter-organizations and chat it up with them. They learned from me. I learned from them. And, overall, they're pretty cool guys. Besides, my file is filled with good stuff, so it doesn't really matter to me.

Re:I am sick of this.

[Loki_1929]

"armed military across the country would protect americans rights and keep the country safe from the jihad."

Someone actually modded this insightful? You've got to be joking. Many of the founding fathers saw a standing military, in and of itself, as a major threat to liberty. Standing armies have historically been used to oppress the population in both times of war and peace. This nation, in an attempt to protect the people from a corrupt regime using the military as a weapon against the people, enacted the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It restricts the military from engaging in any law enforcement, except where provided for by act of Congress or the US Constitution. This followed the Supreme Court decision of Ex Parte Milligan(1866), which stated that Martial rule (military law) cannot exist or be enforced within the borders of the United States except where it is necessitated by a situation (such as rebellion) in which the courts cease to function, and thus, civilian authority no longer exists. The Supreme Court, like just about everyone else who's ever taken 10 seconds to look at a history book, recognized military forces policing civilians as a grave and dire threat to the liberties guaranteed by our Constitution.

The threat posed by the military to the liberties of the American people has been recognized since this country was formed. To say that we should now reverse more than 200 years of historically-based common fucking sense is absolutely insane.

What part of this did someone find "insightful"?