[ale] Big Brother announces all out assault on our Internet

[Jim Popovitch]

Aaron, you need to find a partisan political list to post your rants
on.  

As for the less pointed parts of your message, I have more difficulty
with SPAM and hack-attacks that originate from "public access" and
school systems than anywhere else.  

I tend to agree with Tenet when he basically says that it's a security
problem to give stupid people access to the Internet.  How can anyone
disagree with that?

-Jim P.

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:43 +0000, aaron wrote:
> This is a couple days out, but I just uncovered this disturbing little news 
> item and think it is something that everyone with a stake in information 
> technologies or civil liberties needs to be aware of.
> 
> It seems now that the Big Brother, Massive Government, Bomb & Bankrupt
> neocons have (allegedly) been reinstalled for all of about 2 minutes...
> ...the time has come for them to whip up a few more phony, fear mongering 
> threats, resume terrorizing the sheeple and commence destroying any remaining 
> traces of free speech, free ideas and freedom of information that have found 
> sanctuary on our internet:
> 
> =================
> [Washington Times, 2004.12.02]
> 
> Former CIA Director George J. Tenet yesterday called for new security measures 
> to guard against attacks on the United States that use the Internet, which he 
> called "a potential Achilles' heel." 
> 
>   "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still 
> think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or 
> accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in 
> Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and 
> control [of the totalitarian state]."
> 
> Full article at:
> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041201-114750-6381r.htm>
> ================
> 
> All very orchestrated and predictable, really.
> 
> In concert with Tenet's proclamation, the Republican congress has recently 
> been aiming its budgetary blunderbus at  the funding sources of our Nation's 
> colleges and universities, the invaluable and successful public institutions 
> that also happen to be the repositories for much of our most essential 
> internet infrastructure. To prop up the attack efforts, the neocon pundit 
> media machine has been liberally vilifying those who encourage and pursue 
> intellectual freedom in America's noble institutions of higher education. 
> Like disposing of the free press and free speech, persecuting the society's 
> most informed free thinkers is an early  cornerstone atrocity of every 
> communist and fascist political coupe of the past 300 years.
> 
> With our most visible avenues for public dissent effectively buried**  and 
> journalistic objectivity in the corporate conglomerate media virtually 
> eliminated, a full out assault on the freedom of our public internet 
> communications is just the next mile marker of repression as  we goose step 
> into the "screwed world order" of the Corporate Communist Republican State.
> 
> The tragedy is that this used to be a country that respected democracy, 
> freedom, civil liberty and sanity.
> 
> peace
> (Because the only nations of freedom are the nations seeking peace.)
> aaron
> 
> 
> 
> **
> (with cowardly policies like "far speech" zones and requiring citizens to sign 
> childish permission slips to attend public government events)
> 
> 
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