Previous message: "FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to Politech" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02219.html ********* Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:28:17 -0400 From: Chuck0 <chuckat_private> Organization: Infoshop.org To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> CC: politechat_private, aaronlat_private Subject: Re: FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to Politech Declan McCullagh wrote: > > The FBI is investigating an alleged threat against the Cato Institute, the > world's leading free-market think tank, sent to Politech. > > Chuck0 <chuckat_private> sent a message to Politech that I forwarded -- as > part of an ongoing discussion about privacy and globalization -- on Monday: > http://www.politechbot.com/p-02214.html > > The message said: "Cato's little insult of the black bloc means that we'll > be paying Cato HQ a visit this coming September. People who work in glass > buildings shouldn't throw the first rhetorical stones." It's interesting that so-called "libertarians" would run to the FBI when they can't take a joke. My response to Declan McCullagh concerning Aaron Lukas' article, a journalist whose work I respect and read on a regular basis, was meant for Declan's eyes only, not the entirety of the Politech list. My comment about the "black bloc means that we'll be paying Cato HQ a visit this coming September" didn't say anything about what the black bloc would do once it reached Cato. It's not like I can tell the black bloc what to do. I they chose to do this, perhaps they would consense to smoking some weed with the Libertarians, since we do see eye to eye on drug policy. Of course, there are many things we don't see eye to eye on, including free markets, free trade, and running to the FBI when we can't take a joke. << Chuck0 >> Infoshop.org -> http://www.infoshop.org/ Alternative Press Review -> http://www.altpr.org/ Practical Anarchy Online -> http://www.practicalanarchy.org/ Homepage -> http://flag.blackened.net/chuck0/home/ INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with President Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck hit us." (from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg). ********* [Since Chuck0 sent his message to declanat_private and copied the politechat_private list address, I concluded it was intended for public distribution. --Declan] ********* Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:03:15 -0700 To: declanat_private From: Jim Warren <jwarrenat_private> Subject: Re: FC: FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to Politech >The FBI is investigating an alleged threat against the Cato Institute ... One wonders if the FBI would leap forward as quickly, to diligently investigate every similar threat against, say, the ACLU or Earth First or the anti-corporate IndyMedia operations (ad hoc Independent Media Centers) ... or SOA Watch (School of the Americas Watch; www.soaw.org), that has been picketing for years, against US-govt training of Latin American police[*], etc. Oh ... I forgot. This is Amerika ... where selective enforcement is the norm (e.g. percentage of white coke users in our prisons vs. that of non-whites). --jim [*] - "Graduates of the SOA are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians." ********* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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