Re: ACM

[ken_i_m () fatair net]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:52:02AM +0200, Gadi Evron (ge () linuxbox org) wrote:
> I quite agree, but currently, even if we don't like them, these lines 
> are put forth by democratic governments (the ones we discussed anyway)/ 
> Would you rather it be any other way? Please elaborate.

I am not feeling particularly generous towards the "elected leaders" of
these "democratic governments" at the moment.  I spent a recent non-work
wake cycle following my curiosity.

It started with a comment about a book "Barry and 'the boys'", which
led among other places to John Stockwell, and then by the long way round
to John Perkins and his recent book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man". Then a visit to Allan Dulles and Mossadegh.  Which led pretty much
directly to Bechtel and Casper Weinburger, George Schultz, William
Casey, et al.  Which came full circle via Reagan to Barry Seal with
George H.W. Bush's private phone number on a piece of paper in his
wallet when he was killed by a Columbian hit squad.

(From an interview with Noam Chomsky by Amy Goodman)
"....here [in USA] we have a thing called an election, which is a choice
between two men, both born to great wealth and political influence, and
went to the same fancy private schools, same elite university, joined
the same secret society where you train people to be members of the
ruling class. They can run because they're funded by pretty much the
same concentrations for private power."

No, this general sort of stuff is not news to me.  What was interesting
was the sheer volume of creditable material (e.g. the CIA published Hitz
report) that I was able to review in a single 12 hour period of looking.
The implication is that anyone who denies what our "elected leaders" are
really doing is someone who simply can not be taken seriously.  Any
intelligent person, in our affluent society, has to work pretty hard not
to be aware of this stuff.  They have to be shoving their head pretty
far up their ass.

No, it does not jusify in any way the writing of malware.  But on a
scale of criminality maybe malware authors are not quite as evil as
other 'bad actors'.

have a nice day,
-- 
Ken Dyke
"Bits at the speed of light"
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