Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Stephen Wylie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen Lewis [mailto:oml@eloka.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 September 2001 17:23
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: RE: Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive
> 
>> With all respect, there is a great difference.
> 
> For the last several years, the IRA has expertly used acts of 
> 'terrorism' to
> pursue doggedly a political agenda. In this they have been largely
> successful, in part because they have been at pains to 
> restrict their acts
> to grabbing large headlines and causing discomfiture with 
> minimum risk to
> life.

Thousands of people have died in NI. But then, they're only Paddies and
don't count, I suppose. The peace process was started by HMG when major
economic targets in the UK were destroyed. This is typical of Western
governments priorities.

> 
> The acts yesterday in NY, Washington and near Pittsburgh were 
> purposefully
> designed to kill very large numbers of people. The final 
> death toll may
> never be known with certainty but there is already reason to 
> suppose that it
> will not be less then 50,000. This is any act of 'terrorism' 
> but an act of
> war and the USA is now indeed at war though a declaration to 
> that effect has
> yet to be made.

May God preserve us from being led in war by chumps like GW Bush, who is
hard to assassinate because they don't know which golf course he will be on.

> 
> Perhaps only those with experience of military operations will fully
> appreciate the level of planning, discipline, expertise, 
> coordination and
> self-sacrifice required to conduct yesterday's operation so 
> successfully. It
> was a carefully organised and well run operation designed as 
> an act of war.

If you really want to die, it's an absolute doddle. That's what's so scary
about it.

 My guess (and, sadly, my hope) is that those who 
> already expect
> that the reaction to be one of investigation, arrest, prosecution,
> conviction and sentence, all according to the rules of 
> criminal law, will be
> and must be  confounded. <SNip>- as long
> as those who consider such acts a reasonable proposition 
> remain alive and
> capable of organisation.

People who think this way cannot be exterminated successfully. Every piece
of stupid violence by the US creates more of them. 

> The destruction of those who have shown 
> themselves
> willing to commit or aid such an act and - of equal importance - the
> destruction and taking under administration of any society, 
> nation state or
> otherwise, which causes or associates itself with such an 
> act. A

An impossible program. Vietnam - the action replay. The Soviets tried to
take Afghanistan under administration. 

> 
> I think, in the short term, we all face hard, uncomfortable 
> and distressing
> choices. Better this by far than that the distress of so many 
> in the USA
> this week be visited interminably on millions of others.

A rationale for the destruction of whatever liberty remains to us.

> 
> We tend forget that liberty is bought at a price. 

Are we free here? I don't feel free. Having been a long-term political
activist, I assure you we do not live in a free and democratic society. You
are free to go along with the bosses, as everywhere.
 
> I sincerely wish that the American people and their 
> Government deliver this
> payment promptly, in full measure and without visible 
> hesitation. 

Sheer idiocy. You counsel more of the kind of kneejerk mindless violence
which has created the situation.

>, we owe to the US and its people such support,
> comradeship and unanimity of purpose in this endeavour as we 
> are able give.

We don't owe the US anything. Are you British or American? Do you really
believe that if this had happened in London, Bush would have done anything
other than offer condolences? And try to take the business off our companies
while they were stricken? Wake up to the capitalist world. This is a
marvellous business oppoertunity for the City of London (well, those bits
not owned by US firms, which isn't much)

The real problem with Osama bin Laden is that he's got money. Since money is
sacred in the eyes of our rulers, they haven't taken it off him. If they
did, he would cease to be a threat. This also applies to the IRA. It would
also help if they would put national defence ahead of short -term business
profit occasionally, as in the failed attempt to improve US airport
security, blocked by the airlines for business reasons.

Steve