[117333] in Cypherpunks
Re: Enemies of the state By Diane Alden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Tue Aug 31 16:25:27 1999
Date: 31 Aug 1999 20:00:02 -0000
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To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
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Marcel Popescu [mdpopescu@geocities.com]
inscribed:
>WHY THE HELL DO YOU ALLOW THEM TO DO IT?
>
>I'm from Romania, Eastern Europe. I can testify for what happens when the
>government becomes an absolute master. I KNOW the terror that you're gonna
>feel. Trust me, 1984 is NO exaggeration. And yet, you prefer to sit on your
>butt and do nothing about it. WHY?
short answer:didn't YOU let it happen?
your people surely had ample warning from history. better than the US tv-addicts you criticize in fact.
time for a reprint of something very important:
The great tragedy of it, is that it didn't have to happen. Not at all...we were warned.
And yet, still, it has come to this.
I don't know why I feel this overwhelming compulsion to go on and on about it. I could have done something. We all could have done something.
Perhaps the final epitaph on the gravestone of Freedom will be,
"Why didn't somebody do something?"
That seems to be the common battle-cry of the legions of humanity that have been sucked into the vortex of the New World Order.
None of the imprisoned seem to know that the very phrase itself is reflective of the source of their imprisonment...that this desperate cry of anguish is in no way an antidote for the terrible disease that has afflicted 'Liberty and Justice', and that it is, rather, merely the final symptom of the cursed blight itself.
I can hear the rumbling of the trucks as they come up the street, and soon I will be hearing the thumping of the jackboots storming up the staircase, as I have heard them so many times before. But I suspect that this time, the sound will be different, that it will have an ethereal quality about it, one which conveys greater personal meaning than it did when I heard it on previous occasions.
This time, they are coming for me.
My only hope, is that I can find the strength of character somewhere inside myself to ask the question which lies at the heart of why there is a 'they' to come for me at all...why, in the end, it has finally come to this for me, as for countless others.
The question is, in retrospect, as simple and basic as it is essential for any who still espouse the concepts of freedom and liberty to ask themselves upon finding themselves marveling at the outrageousness being perpetrated upon their neighbors by 'them'...by 'others'...by 'Friends of the Destroyer.'
The question is:
"Why didn't I do something?"
Thanks,Toto.Owe you a beer when you get out.
