Date: Fri, 04 Dec 92 22:42:00 PDT
>From: Eagle.Runner@SOLITUD.FIDONET.ORG(Eagle Runner)
Subject: File 3--Message from Solitude - (Re: CuD 4.57)
 
Whew!  After reading the CUD-457, which gave a pretty good account of
the USSS and property seizures, I didn't know whether to "laugh" at
the ridiculous behavior, or "cry", because of what it seems to
indicate about the current State of the Union.
 
Obviously, folks at N.S.A., D.I.A., F.B.I., and probably C.I.A., are
all becoming rather `paranoid' of the so-called "hacker threat" to
national security.  I see corruption, abuses of authority, extreme
incompetence well-beyond Peter Principle levels in Government, but
this is indicative of incredible malfunctioning by decision makers in
high places.  It isn't likely some low-level USSS person authorized
this, without somebody higher up the chain's knowledge.
 
Sounds like we're in for some Dzerzhinski style `hijinks' with regard
to the intelligence community in this country, beyond what most
American's are ready to believe is really happening.  The real danger
with this stuff is that, given the relatively large segment of the
public that already "fears" the computer, or is "ignorant" of how far
or how limited the technology is, it's likely that there won't be a
large enough voice of "dissent" over this incident, or other's.  It's
scary that this Gestapo-like garbage can be condoned in ANY so-called
democracy, let alone one with a Constitution and a Bill of Right's, as
we have.  What next??  Already, I've had my telephone `tapped' without
writ or court order, by `corrupt' law-enforcement people here in
Arizona, both state and federal, and often wonder when they'll just
break the door down, jerk my computer up by the wires, and depart.
All it takes is to stand-up and "just say no" to the incredible
Orwellian fascism we're living, and boy, you can kiss your
Constitutional rights `adios'.
 
I have read a lot of stuff that `sickened' me, but I think with all of
the other naivete that I've had jerked off of me like a well worn in
security blanket, things of this nature really make me ask myself
"why" I served in the military during the Vietnam conflict, only to
find out that communism isn't so much a red flag with a hammer and
sickle on it, as it is a government that is totalitarian in nature, as
ours has certainly become.
 
This `incident' at the mall ought to serve as a wake-up call to every
single American with a computer, and perhaps anyone with views
contrary to the politically correct ones.  I remember reading volumes
of books about Germany, post WWI, and incredibly enough, this nation
is increasingly looking a lot like the Germany I'd read about, from
about 1934, onwards.  Ronald Reagan and George Bush must've copied
their scripts straight out of Mein Kampf.
 
Anyway, I didn't want to rant and rave about how bad-off we are, but
sit at the computer tonight, asking myself how much longer it will be
before we find ourselves sitting around, computer-less, absolutely no
guarantee whatsoever that our telephones, if we still have them,
aren't tapped, and that any dissenting comment we might make, about
any governmental entity, might ultimately be used as an excuse, as the
term "hacker" has, to "threaten," "intimidate" and without due
process, confiscate our property?
 
It is perhaps time for you to think seriously about getting this story
a lot wider dissemination into the press, s the rest of the nation
can, if it isn't lobotomized yet, realize that something went horribly
"wrong" in Washington, D.C. on the 7th of ((November)), and that
nothing less than a full-blown accounting for it by the D.O.J. and
F.B.I ought to be mandated by the public.
 
Thanks for your time, and I hope that if there ever was a time when the
alert lags ought to be flown, this was one of them.
 
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