[117139] in Cypherpunks
guns, germs, bits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Aug 27 01:28:38 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:05:41 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908270505.HAA24662@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 10:09 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>Communication freedom, privacy and guns are all the same. And it's not me
>saying that, it's ITAR...
>
>Ciao
>
>jfa
Man, you are repeating my thoughts. Or my thoughts of a while ago. But now,
the question is, how can we further our aims? Put any surplus income into
the guns we can still buy? Turn our friends onto guns? Onto crypto?
Shit, I don't know enough people to make a difference. But maybe others have
already automated sympathetic cliques. Mailing lists. Hausfraus w/ crypto.
Baby.
Preaching to c'punks is preaching to the choir, believe me. Hell, they've
helped me learn shit I never imagined. But preaching guns and crypto, which
*I* realized were the same (under Their own definitions) before you hit
puberty,
and in fact as sine qua nons of militiary/militia ops, this is so obvious to
most readers of cp, I'm (you're) just wasting bits, I eventually realized.
YES crypto is in the same class as weapons, of things DANGEROUS to the
state if the state is evil.
Of things strengthening the state if the state were good. Exchange of
thought, blah blah.
BUT in the tiny minds of the urban sheeple, guns be bad. We'ze be turnin'
dem in
fur a hunerd bucks. Rural folk have more clue, but are increasingly an
endangered species.
Guns bad. Crypto like guns. Crypto bad. Terroristo-pedo-narcophiles.
Not the ones
running for office; I mean the regular ones, bad, bad, unlicensed markets,
bad bad.
