From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 02:34:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Computers as instruments of liberation
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At 2:22 AM -0500 11/2/98, Tim May wrote:
>Fatuous nonsense. After all, those folks down the road may be taxing them,
>and may need killing. Or those folks may use computer networks to connect
>to others for the purposes of liberation.
>
>I see computer networks as promoting secessionism, freedom fighting, and
>resistance in general.
>
>The New World Order, the One Worlders, see this as "terrorism."
>
>Which is why strong encryption is needed. Which is why "they" oppose strong
>encryption.
>
>John Gage has a typically Fabian socialist view that somehow
>computerization will lead to an orderly, peaceful world.
>
>Me, I view networks as  the key to retribution and justice.

	Then again, it could be that after all the "secessionism and
freedom fighting" are done with, the resulting "disorder" (as in lack of
rulers) will be so ubiquitous that *WARS* will no longer happen, as there
is no one to lead the armies. and no one paying taxes to support those
armies.

	That then would be peasce, no?
--
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