Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror

2004-01-26 Thread Nostradumbass
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4889§ionID=40 A view from the left Excerpts "During the height of the cold war, a group of Soviet journalists were taken on an official tour of the United States. They watched TV; they read the newspapers; they listened to debates in Co

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-12 Thread Nostradumbass
At 03:20 PM 1/11/2004, Jamie Lawrence wrote: >A client/friend recently spent 9 hours in jail for failure to carry a wallet. He was doing something mildly suspicious, but not illegal. NYC has a very entrenched industry dealing with "processing" people the cops pick up. This has only gotten worse sin

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-11 Thread Nostradumbass
At 03:20 PM 1/11/2004, Jamie Lawrence wrote: >A client/friend recently spent 9 hours in jail for failure to carry a wallet. He was doing something mildly suspicious, but not illegal. NYC has a very entrenched industry dealing with "processing" people the cops pick up. This has only gotten worse sin

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-09 Thread Nostradumbass
> At 08:10 PM 1/9/2004, Greg Broiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you actually read the opinion, or just read some screwball summary of it? Obviously not well enough. Thanks for straightening me out. > > >In Cases v. United States, 131 F.2d 916 (1st Cir. 1942) the Supreme Court > >[...]

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-09 Thread Nostradumbass
> > >Further appeals to Congress and the states are no longer a sure bet. The > >soap box and the ballot box have been throughly tried, is it now time to > >get out the ammo box? > > You're forgetting the jury box. Are you forgetting that the Fat Lady on the jury, at least in the 9th Circuit

US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-08 Thread Nostradumbass
The great American experiment finally fizzled on December 1, 2003, when the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a 9th Federal Circuit decision which gutted the Second Amendment. It was a nice run - over two hundred years. As of December 1, 2003, the US Supreme Court issued its rulin

Book review: A Lodging of Wayfaring Men

2004-01-06 Thread Nostradumbass
[The book is now available in electronic form (.pdf) for download from long time cypherpunk and Havenco founder Sean Hastings' web site: http://www.seanhastings.com/alowm.pdf Donations/patronage of $10 to the author, in e-gold or DMT, are requested in the book's forward.] A Lodging of Wayfari

Re: Sources and Sinks

2004-01-04 Thread Nostradumbass
From: bgt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 07:09, Michael Kalus wrote: > > > > Where there is no governmental police force, their is demand for > > > private enforcement. And you know what? They regularly do their jobs > > > better than the police. > > > > Of course there is no oversig

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2004-01-01 Thread Nostradumbass
At 05:19 PM 12/31/2003, John Kelsey wrote: > > In the most morally neutral case, this is like one criminal gang attacking > another. If the Sopprano family invades the Bozini family's turf, takes > over their protection rackets, and hunts down their godfather, it could be > messy, and it reall

Re: Patriot Ants (was: Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings)

2003-12-14 Thread Nostradumbass
From: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John Kelsey wrote: > > > Of course, there's a more fundamental problem with surrendering to the lone > > warriors. Imagine that there's such a wave of pro-life terrorism that we > > finally agree to ban abortion. You're a fanatical

PhoneBook: Making your PC 'Police-Ready'

2003-12-12 Thread Nostradumbass
[Wherein the author of Freemail reveals his latest project idea. Comments to the author are appreciated.] PhoneBook is a suite of Linux software that allows you to protect your privacy by creating encrypted filesystems, in such a way as to defend you from both technical and legal attacks. htt

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-11 Thread Nostradumbass
From: An Metet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The devil is in details. > > Given small numbers and absence of any other grouping factor there needs to be an > "obvious" place for ZPs to refer to. Any obvious place that becomes even remotely > attractive to ZPs will be immediately raided. If you mean a

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
Original Message From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in > > checking account holder identification > > Unfortunately, they also don't due much if any due diligen

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
Original Message From: Anatoly Vorobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > > is posting to. (Assuming his reci

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
Original Message From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)] Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:13:59 -0800 > -- > On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If yo

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > is posting to. (Assuming his recipient sets his newsagent to > always d

ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
At 10:37 AM 12/10/2003, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 9 Dec 2003 at 0:47, edo wrote: >> What I'm curious about is digital currencies. Can anyone >> speak about the Digital Monetary Trust or DMT? I'm sorry I >> have not read the last upteen years of mail archives, but I'm >> interested in what pe

Foresight Exchange in NYT today

2003-10-02 Thread Nostradumbass
New York Times, Page E9, October 2, 2003 Predict the Future? You Can Bet on It By PETER WAYNER THE off-again, on-again recall election in California hasn't been easy on politicians and voters in that state. It hasn't been too easy on Gavin Peters, either, even though he lives 2,500 miles away i