http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43175,00.html FBI Crashes Parody Party By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 12:21 p.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT Depending on who you ask, Karl August Mueller is either one of the Web's funniest satirists, or a malevolent threat to society. From his side-splitting letters to Virginia newspapers purporting to be a right-of-Rush conservative to his fictitious Lobster Liberation Front that encourages readers to free tank-trapped crustaceans, Mueller has made an art of encouraging visitors to think twice about whether what they're reading is real. But the Feds don't appreciate his humor. Mueller, a 33-year-old Web programmer in Los Angeles who goes by the online name of "Gus, said two FBI agents paid him a surprise visit at 7:30 a.m. PDT Thursday. "I was in the shower and, knock, knock, knock, my housemate's knocking on my shower telling me there are two FBI agents on the door," Mueller says. "They wanted to talk to me about this website. They were like "We're having trouble with shootings and schools throughout the country and you're promoting this, you know." The portion of his website Mueller is talking about is the "Trench Coat Mafia" page -- a parody he placed online soon after news broke about the Columbine massacre. It says: "Hello and Heil Hitler! My name is Eric and this is my Web page! I hate jocks, Jews and jiggaboos. I loathe wops, spics and blood-engorged ticks." It pretends to be written by a white supremacist Goth geek obsessed with two things: Pipe bombs and getting even with the "jocks" in his high school. "Our master plan is to kill at least 500 people at our high school, besiege the local neighborhood, seize the airport, and then crash a plane full of jocks and cheerleaders into the Pentagon," the page says. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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