[49791] in Cypherpunks
Re: Reasons in support of crypto-anarchy WAS Re: Why am I (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Sun Feb 11 09:59:51 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 09:54:22 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
It's hard to tell the difference between "Assasination
Politics" and government-sponsored provocateurism, a
well-documented practice to stigmatize anarchical and
anti-authoritarian ventures.
However, it takes guts and thick skin to advocate overthrow of
authority, knowing that reasonable people will think you're a
nut seeking celebrity martyrdom.
Happily for the careers of agent-and-anarchist back-stabbing
back-scratchers, there is no easy way to know for sure which is
which, or even if there's any difference when the media
juggernauts are provocateuring both roles for melodramatic
infotainment.