[118415] in Cypherpunks
RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RProcess)
Mon Sep 27 03:43:29 1999
Date: 27 Sep 1999 07:20:21 -0000
Message-ID: <19990927072021.26258.qmail@nym.alias.net>
From: RProcess <rprocess@nym.alias.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: RProcess <rprocess@nym.alias.net>
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:58:54 -0700 , "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
wrote
>Of course Americans are no more vulnerable today to bios than they were 20
>years ago. We are still the same species we were 20 or a 100 years ago. And
>designer bugs are still rather uncommonly found in the possession of those
>that might use them.
>
>What has increased, however, are the motivating factors for groups, both
>foreign and domestic, to deploy bios in the US. Which in turn is a direct
>result of the policies employed by the US government providing an every
>increasing number of reasons to bring the wrath of [Allah, God, etc]. down
>upon the perpetrators.
>
That's very perceptive. The US intelligence community, funded by but not
necessarily representative of Americans, is actively attacking others in
their war for domination (not US domination - just agency domination and
control, including of US citizens), and when the retaliation comes they go
crying to congress about how the terrorists (including the indigenous ones)
are coming to get everyone, and that they need more money and 'emergency
measures' to limit freedom more. This in turn causes more extreme responses.
As in most wars, the civilians pay the price.
On the other hand people have become so cattle-like in their refusal to
question authority that you can hardly call them innocent when they pay the
price for letting their governments grow out of control.
Nor do I mean to imply that these 'terrorist' actions are not horrible or
that they can be ignored. But these agencies fail to see how their
provocative 'national security' actions fan the flames of war. Really it is
a war - the word "terrorism" is just their way of trying to belittle their
enemy. But they too are well-practiced in the art of killing when it suits
their purposes, and engage in it daily.
>> The Commission on National Security, sponsored by President Bill Clinton
>> and Congress, released a 143-page report on Tuesday that presented a dire
>> forecast of the prospect of terrorism in the United States. The commission
>> was composed of 25 former defense officials who served under U.S.
>> administrations.
>>
>> "For many years to come, Americans will become increasingly
>> less secure,"
>> the report said. "America will become increasingly vulnerable to hostile
>> attack on our homeland, and our military superiority will not entirely
>> protect us. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large
>> numbers. Threats to American security will be more diffuse, harder to
>> anticipate and more difficult to neutralize than ever before."
>>
