>So "Cypherpunks" is a political movement, then? You are cohesive, and, as >frequently pointed out, have a written doctrine. (i.e., "read the archives, >twit" seems to echo in my mind). You have meatspace meetings, and members >which identify with you as a "movement."
Of course, and hereby I officially and under oath declare that I am the Secretary General of the Cpunk Movement. I have been a member for a long time, and I know many members personally. I also have a membership Card. We meet on a regular bases, and the main objective of our meetings, as can be witnessed by reading of the official agendas, is to make life of Men Who Control Men With Guns (MWCMWG, aka "government") as miserable and as short as possible. The main method that we deploy is designing and disseminating weapons (aka "crypto tools") which make it impossible or hard for MWCMWG to figure out what is going on among dissenters, sheeple and population in general. The rationale for this is simple: a blind man is a lousy combatant, and also very funny. Although many Movement members tend to portray themselves (for the obvious self- preservation reasons) as patriotic {americans, subjects, french, germans, whatever} and invoke a shield of paper documents such as law, constitution, MWCMWG official propaganda and similar, that is just a front. Our ultimate goal is to remove the primitive social engineering type ("politician") from the gene pool. Some of us would like to use Pb for this goal, but, as with cockroaches, while crushing is spectacular and offers instant gratification, the real solution is the slow poison. We, the Movement, are the only credible threat to the state, because we have the expertise to neutralise the very tools the state hopes will give it eternal power. >AN ACT >To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive You could be sarcastic, but I'm afraid that's just too much to hope for. I think that you are plain stupid. You stated before that you are a lawyer - so you base your referent system on MWCMWG rule book whose sole purpose is to keep the system frozen. I do not doubt your sincerety, and you seem to use that as the argument. I'm just saying that you have been firmwared beyond ability to comprehend reality. And the reality will be the ultimate judge. Some history reading may help here. Maybe you would be interested to find out what happens to those who fail to dis-align themselves from the Empire on time. I trust that your self-preservation instincts can overcome the programming.