[118149] in Cypherpunks
Re: IP: THEY THINK WE'RE THE ENEMY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Kapp)
Mon Sep 20 20:59:09 1999
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From: "Stephen Kapp" <skapp@eidosnet.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:11:26 +0100
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From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>
To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>; <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Cc: <fiedor19@eos.net>; <ignition-point@precision-d.com>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: IP: THEY THINK WE'RE THE ENEMY
> In Doug Fiedor's recent column on police militarization, he quotes from a
> purported "US Army urban warfare manual" and gives a link to it. Fair
> enough. Well, I took a look at it and here's what I found in chapter two:
>
> http://earthops.org/sovereign/urban_warfare/90-10.2.html
> >All fighting men are told that no one has the right to leave the defended
> location without a specific order to do so. Party members are distributed
> throughout the fighting units. There must be an "active member" in every
> separate group of fighting men. He conducts party-political indoctrination
> and provides the example in combat. Based on the commander's iuidance and
> decision, the Deputy Commander for Political Affairs plans the
> party-political support for the combat missions.
>
> I don't know about you, but this seems to me to be a spoof of some Soviet
> literature, not something that has anything to do with the FBI or Waco. Or
> maybe it's something that a bored high school JROTC kid wrote in his spare
> time. Whatever.
Well this high school kid must work for the Deptment of the Army because if
you happen to take a look at the original from the US Army Digital Library
the text is well the same.. Take a look for your self
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/90-10/90-10ch2.htm
> Moral: Just because something's on the Internet, don't believe it's real.
However in this case it is..
The moral is check you facts before making a statement, because egg is so
difficult to get off your face.
