posted 09-18-2001 01:55
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Originally posted by driver:
But I will not tolerate this shit in my neighborhood. They have brought it to me. I will cheer it back upon them a million fold.
Seems to me if the USG had done a better job of being the poster children for isolationists, none of this shit would have happened in the first place.
Also seems he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. He freely admits we have been busy making enemies for our own profit for years, but once those enemies retaliate the gloves are off and anything goes. American style.
He is a good writer, funny and entertaining. Which is a challenge when you are writing about the extermination of a people who are sick to death of being fucked by our policy. People with nothing left to lose.
Policy experts have been warning about this scenario for years, and if this inevitable war doesn't scare the shit out of your complacent American ass now, just wait. War will be waged in your town, against your own family, by people who have nothing to lose and everything to gain. As technology advances, it will be even easier to kill without warning.
The first thing you will surrender will be your freedom. Forget the nameless, faceless internet. Everything you do and say will be logged on gov't servers. You see, it has to be. In order to trace where the latest atrocity was staged from we will need to be able to look at exactly what EVERYONE was doing the whole time. Carnivore has (probably) seen more installs at ISP's this week than ever before. ISP's more than glad to give up all rights to privacy in a push to apprehend the bastards who bombed our cities with our own civilians.
The software business has been suspiciously quiet about it lately (besides the BSA) but they stand to gain a great deal of control over licencing in the near future. Everything will have to be registered and trackable. At whatever price they dictate. Unix/linux will tow the line or be outlawed.
Everyone keeps talking about the level of planning and resources involved in such an attack ... but to be honest, I don't see why you would need more than four nutball pilots, a few extra fanatics for crowd control and a $10.00 486 to log in to an online flight reservation page.
Please, oh please let me be wrong about this. This is not a scenario where 'I told you so' will be any compensation.
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I don't practice what I preach, because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.