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San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder
Airw0lf writes with a claim that appears too implausible to credit, at first glance: "If anyone remembers 'Fairlight' — one of the great groups on the warez scene, you may be interested to know that one of their leaders, Tony Krvaric, is now the chairman of the San Diego Republican Party." A similar report (on which the TorrentFreak story above draws heavily, and which is cited for the same claim about Krvaric made in the above-linked Wikipedia entry) showed up last week in The Raw Story. According to these reports, Krvaric is the same person known as "strider" in the Warez scene. I called Krvaric seeking comment; though he was unavailable, I hope he chooses to comment by email to help inform any followup coverage. A telephone receptionist at the office of the San Diego Republican Party acknowledged that she knew of the claims, but refused further comment, citing workplace rules. While she would not directly acknowledge or deny the truth of the allegations, she asked me to "remember, these are things that happened more than 20 years ago." Since some people have been penalized quite harshly (and some have been jailed) for the sort of large-scale software piracy that Fairlight enabled, it's interesting that Krvaric has enjoyed instead a meteoric rise in conservative politics.
Bologna. The real double standard is the way the media challenges everything Republicans lay claim to and assume all bad press about Republicans is true while they assume all good things about Democrats is true and challenge anything negative. The funny exception to this is that Hillary Clinton gets scrutinized by the media all the time. Maybe they think she's a Republican in disguise?
Not all of us look at marriage as some prize that can be won on a reality show, or some tool that should be manipulated to pursue an agenda.
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Libertarians fall into two general categories: those who know that a libertarian state will quickly morph into fascism or feudalism, and are eagerly looking forward to it; and those who are too stupid to realize this.