Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat [++W's Family Treachery]

Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat


For all the "what does it matter" folks
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by Catbeller (118204) Alter Relationship on Saturday November 19, @10:17AM (#14070705)
(http://slashdot.org/)
For months as this RFID contraversy has progressed, people on the 'dot have said, "well, you can always block it with a piece of foil if you don't want to be tracked".

Well, guess what? As predicted by a quick examination of human nature, they WON'T let you block your tracking devices. You will not have a choice as to when and where you will be tracked. This is just the very beginning, the closing of the gate, of our World Prison.

Tell me why again we have to have tracking devices embedded on our persons? I seem to have missed the reasoning. Terrorism?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0367085/
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You have to hand it to Richard
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by Mel (21137) Alter Relationship on Saturday November 19, @10:19AM (#14070718)
(http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel)
The guy has balls and he'll make a stand against what he believes in no matter how it looks. Sure, the tinfoil hat doesn't actually work, but it's a visible symbol that cannot be ignored. Without people like him making a visible protest on a forum that so many high-level people will notice, protests against tracking technologies are just pissing into the wind.
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Ironic having the summit in Tunis
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by Twid (67847) Alter Relationship on Saturday November 19, @10:38AM (#14070824)
(http://dailey.info/)
The real story for this conference is the sad irony of having an information summit in Tunis, which violently suppresses freedom of expression [indexonline.org].
http://www.indexonline.org/en/news/articles/2005/4/tunisia-violence-repression-censorship-by-ho.shtml

You can read lots more stories here. [google.com] I'm pretty surprised the freedom-loving editors at slashdot didn't pick this up as a separate story, it's much more important than Stallman's RFID-tinfoil stunt.

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- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho

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It's Sad.....
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by schlick (73861) Alter Relationship on Saturday November 19, @01:49PM (#14071741)
It saddens me that so many here don't seem to understand a simple but very important concept behind Stallmans protest. It was a catch-phrase in the '60s. I was born in the '70s, but I guess I'm lucky that it was effectively taught to me.

I wish I could make this huge:

QUESTION AUTHORITY!

That is all RMS was doing. And when he did put the question to them we saw their reaction. It scares me, the number of people who think the UN's reaction was appropriate.
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"It's because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything." -Homer Simpson
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9215 (1503 posts)	Jan-13-03, 02:28 PM (ET) Reply to post #9
33. Hauer identified O'Neil's body at WTC.
As regards New York, there is another element involved in germ warfare operations. Actually, a multi-million dollar bunker - serving as a command and control center in the event of a biological attack - was set up at 7 World Trade Center at the direction of Rudolph Giuliani, who also oversaw the mass spraying of malathion over the boroughs of New York City when the West Nile Virus hit town a few summers previously. The man Giuliani placed in charge of that operation, Jerry Hauer, also happened to be the man who found John O'Neill the position at the World Trade Center, as well as being the one who - by his own admission - identified O'Neill's body. Moreover, there has been a widespread campaign on to link the threat of al-Qaida with that of a mass biological attack. At least the day after September 11, the link - as the Anthrax mailings had yet to arise - was not so apparent. Yet on PBS' Frontline, the New York Times' Judith Miller (no apparent relation to John Miller, as far as I'm aware), accompanied by the New York Times' James Risen, was interviewed as an expert on al-Qaida. Several weeks later, Judith Miller would once more make the headlines as the apparent recipient of an anthrax mailing which turned out to be a false alarm - yet was all the same conveniently timed with the well-publicized launching of her book on...germ warfare. As was later discovered, the anthrax mailings petered out once the news leaked that a DNA test revealed the material to be of the Ames strain of anthrax, an agent synthesized out of a CIA laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Nevertheless, this was sufficient to fast-track Bioport's exclusive license for the anthrax vaccine toward FDA approval. Formerly, Bioport's experimental anthrax vaccine was being forcibly administered - under threat of court-martial - to hundreds of thousands of American servicemen (in conformity with Bioport's exclusive and lucrative contract with the Department of Defense). Incidentally, Judith Miller, along with Jerry Hauer, was among 17 "key" participants in a biowarfare exercise known as "Dark Winter" - a think tank-funded scenario that aimed to study the nationwide effects of a hypothetical smallpox outbreak. One of the sponsors of that exercise was the Anser Institute of Homeland Security, an organization established before September 11, 2001. Interestingly enough, the curious phrase "homeland security" was starting to creep up with increasing frequency in the vocabularies of certain political cliques (Dick Cheney, the Hart-Rudman Commission, et al.) in the year or two leading up to 9/11. Another coincidence, or two. Empoweryour Democrat representative. Send them important info on a topic. They will listen. Easy way to send your three national representatives e-mail with one letter: www.congress.org.

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newyawker99 (26629 posts)	Jan-13-03, 09:18 AM (ET) Reply to post #8
31. 9215
Per DU copyright rules please post only 4 paragraphs from the news source. NYer99 DU Moderator ============================= BigBigBear (129 posts) Jan-13-03, 00:34 AM (ET) Reply to post #18 19. I went to High School with Marvin. Always struck me as a self-absorbed, teflon-coated rich kid with a Big Deal for a father (who was ambassador to China then, I believe...) =========== grasswire (2152 posts) Jan-13-03, 01:08 AM (ET) Reply to post #20 23. this Wirt Walker sounds like a Bush His company originally used a name that belonged to another company. The other guy (Libengood) eventually sued to straighten the matter out. Check this excerpt out, from the WSJ in 1998: ".....Securacom, it turned out, was a younger company, but no trifle. Its owners included Mishal al-Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, and Marvin Bush, a son of the president best known for rescuing Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Both investors were friends of a Washington, D.C., venture capitalist named Wirt Walker III, who is Securacom's chairman (and who last year took the company public). Mr. Libengood spent two years trying to get the other Securacom either to abandon its name or buy his. Ultimately he asked for $275,000, a sum based on an appraiser's estimate of the name's value plus the cost of establishing a new one. Down in Washington, this convinced a seething Mr. Walker that Mr. Libengood was digging for gold from the Kuwaiti-backed firm. "He thought there were deep pockets here, which there are," Mr. Walker later put it to me. "We get this stuff all the time. I mean all the time." So, Mr. Walker phoned Mr. Libengood in Pittsburgh. "What is your problem?" he demanded, with an epithet thrown in. Mr. Libengood said he wanted to settle the affair amicably but if necessary he would sue to protect the name. Mr. Walker answered, "I have more money than you'll ever have. If you proceed with this case I'll see that you are financially buried, and we will take everything you ever had." (This account is verified in a judge's opinion in the case.) Indeed, when Mr. Libengood sued, the other Securacom answered with a fusillade of counterclaims, even charging Mr. Libengood's lawyers with racketeering and extortion. While giving a deposition, Mr. Walker pointed to Mr. Libengood and snarled, "We are not through with you." Turning to Mr. Libengood's lawyers he added, "We're not going to pay one penny to you, OK? Period. And hopefully at the end of the day, you guys won't be practicing law anymore." ========================