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As for the less pointed parts of your message, I have more difficulty
with SPAM and hack-attacks that originate from "public access" and
school systems than anywhere else.  

I tend to agree with Tenet when he basically says that it's a security
problem to give stupid people access to the Internet.  How can anyone
disagree with that?

-Jim P.

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:43 +0000, aaron wrote:
> This is a couple days out, but I just uncovered this disturbing little news 
> item and think it is something that everyone with a stake in information 
> technologies or civil liberties needs to be aware of.
> 
> It seems now that the Big Brother, Massive Government, Bomb & Bankrupt
> neocons have (allegedly) been reinstalled for all of about 2 minutes...
> ...the time has come for them to whip up a few more phony, fear mongering 
> threats, resume terrorizing the sheeple and commence destroying any remaining 
> traces of free speech, free ideas and freedom of information that have found 
> sanctuary on our internet:
> 
> =================
> [Washington Times, 2004.12.02]
> 
> Former CIA Director George J. Tenet yesterday called for new security measures 
> to guard against attacks on the United States that use the Internet, which he 
> called "a potential Achilles' heel." 
> 
>   "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still 
> think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or 
> accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in 
> Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and 
> control [of the totalitarian state]."
> 
> Full article at:
&gt; &lt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041201-114750-6381r.htm";>http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041201-114750-6381r.htm</a>&gt;
&gt; ================
&gt; 
&gt; All very orchestrated and predictable, really.
&gt; 
&gt; In concert with Tenet's proclamation, the Republican congress has recently 
&gt; been aiming its budgetary blunderbus at  the funding sources of our Nation's 
&gt; colleges and universities, the invaluable and successful public institutions 
&gt; that also happen to be the repositories for much of our most essential 
&gt; internet infrastructure. To prop up the attack efforts, the neocon pundit 
&gt; media machine has been liberally vilifying those who encourage and pursue 
&gt; intellectual freedom in America's noble institutions of higher education. 
&gt; Like disposing of the free press and free speech, persecuting the society's 
&gt; most informed free thinkers is an early  cornerstone atrocity of every 
&gt; communist and fascist political coupe of the past 300 years.
&gt; 
&gt; With our most visible avenues for public dissent effectively buried**  and 
&gt; journalistic objectivity in the corporate conglomerate media virtually 
&gt; eliminated, a full out assault on the freedom of our public internet 
&gt; communications is just the next mile marker of repression as  we goose step 
&gt; into the &quot;screwed world order&quot; of the Corporate Communist Republican State.
&gt; 
&gt; The tragedy is that this used to be a country that respected democracy, 
&gt; freedom, civil liberty and sanity.
&gt; 
&gt; peace
&gt; (Because the only nations of freedom are the nations seeking peace.)
&gt; aaron
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; **
&gt; (with cowardly policies like &quot;far speech&quot; zones and requiring citizens to sign 
&gt; childish permission slips to attend public government events)
&gt; 
&gt; 
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