On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:12:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:58:05 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:06:31PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> Given the current security climate, it's quite possible that your last > >> remark has caused your mail to end up in the inbox of some spook who might > >> also read your sig and add two and two to get five. > > > > Like anybody in national security gives a flying fuck about some > > off-handed joke in a relatively obscure mailing list. > > > > Just one example, from memory: > > You are obviously unaware of the US schoolboy who, during the Cold War, > had the Soviet travel agency (can't remember its name now, InTourist, > maybe) mail him some USSR tourist brochures for a school project. > > He became the subject of intense FBI/CIA scrutiny for a significant period > of time. His house was watched, he was photographed, mail was opened, the > family telephone was tapped, etc.
I know the title will offend, but you should read the book "Useful Idiots" by Mona Charen. The phrase was Lenin's. About you :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
