Re: Jam Echelon Day [The Disinformation Has Begun]

[ricardo dominguez <rdom@thing.net>]

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yes the virus did emerge on this list...
and yes a correction would be good to do......

and yes the hijacking memes right now is
a really hyper_smooth way of displacing
the orginal focus of the action...perhaps we
should do the same to them.....a thought anyway..

ciao,
r

Chuck0 wrote:

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> Didn't this event originate from discussions on this list? If so, it
> would be worthwhile to ask Wired to run a correction.
>
> It really bother me when somebody takes over a good idea for their own
> purposes.
>
> Chuck0
> Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
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>
> Robert Kemp wrote:
> >
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> >
> > It seems an organization in Indiana has decided to take over this movement
> > [article below].  Obviously, someone in the American Justice Federation
> > decided to pass on the alert about Jam Echelon Day to their boss, Linda
> > Thompson and she seems to have decided to sponsor the event while changing
> > the day of the event.  Without the event occurring on October 21, it will
> > have little tangible effect.
> >
> > Linda Thompson is the producer of a video called "Waco: The Big Lie."  I
> > have seen this video and it is by far the most incriminating documentary on
> > the Mt. Carmel massacre.  In the past few years I have noticed that many
> > organziations tied to the militia and patriot movements have, however, spoke
> > rather harshly of her and it has always puzzled me, until now.  I can see
> > that she is prone to acting irresponsibly, if not downright disruptively.  I
> > would not have had a problem with the organization's usurpation of the
> > campaign if it were not for the fact they have changed the date via some
> > major internet media [Wired News for example].  She has seen to it that Jam
> > Echelon Day will have no tangible effect, i.e. facilitating smoother and
> > freer communications on Stop Police Brutality Day [Oct. 22].  Or has she?
> >
> > I have spent considerable time in the past trying to track down an email
> > address for Linda Thompson for other reasons, among them to order a copy of
> > her Waco expose.  She is notoriously hard to locate and there is a multitude
> > of email addresses to be found online for her, none of which work.  The
> > organization she founded, the American Justice Federation, is also not
> > online seemingly which is odd considering that the organization seems to
> > engage in a whole lot of net media, apparently through clandestine
> > connections.
> >
> > The group DOES have a snail mail address however and it is below.  Also
> > below is the popular online consensus reality as to just who Linda Thompson
> > is.
> >
> > I will be working long and hard tonight on an alert informing the world of
> > the necessity of holding this day, as planned, on October 22.
> > I will also send an open letter to the American Justice Federation via a
> > HUGE amount of net forums.  I plan also to see to it that Wired News find
> > out exactly what has happened here.
> >
> > ======================================================================
> > http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/linda-thompson.html
> >
> > Linda Thompson
> > Self-proclaimed "Acting Adjunct General" of the "Unorganized Militia of the
> > United States," Linda Thompson is an influential figure in the militia
> > movement. She is a lawyer in Indianapolis and chairman of the American
> > Justice Federation, which describes itself as "a group dedicated to stopping
> > the New World Order and getting the truth out to the American public."
> > Thompson claims to have contact with militias in all 50 states. She appears
> > frequently at militia gatherings and gun shows to lecture and sell her
> > videos "Waco, The Big Lie," and "Waco II - The Big Lie Continues." The
> > latter, she claims, "proves conclusively the government murdered 100 men,
> > women and children at Mr. Carmel in April, 1993." She also sells other
> > propaganda material such as "The Traitor Files," which purport to link "Bill
> > and Hillary Clinto to a Marxist-Terrorist network."
> > Thompson's most ambitious undertaking to date was a planned militia march on
> > Washington, D.C., on September 19, 1994, where an ultimatum was to be
> > delivered to the government. The ultimatum commanded members of Congress to
> > initiate legislation that would, among other things, repeal the 14th, 16th
> > and 17th Amendments to the Constitution, and the Brady Law and NAFTA.
> > Thompson ordered all participants to come "armed and in uniform," and that
> > besides delivering the ultimatum, "The militia will arrest Congressmen who
> > have failed to uphold their oaths of office, who will then be tried for
> > Treason by citizens' courts." Realizing after several months that support
> > for her march was lacking, Thompson called it off. Thompson continues to
> > appear at rallies and conferences around the country, on radio and on
> > computer bulletin boards, promoting the militia cause and calling down
> > thunder upon the American government and its law enforcement agencies. On
> > the subject of the Oklahoma bombing, she said: "I genuinely believe the
> > government did this bombing... I mean, who's got a track record of killing
> > children?" (Anti-Defamation League, 31)
> >
> > Work Cited
> > Anti-Defamation League. [Special Report] Paranoia as Patriotism: Far-Right
> > Influences on the Militia Movement. 1995.
> >
> > American Justice Federation
> > 3850 S. Emerson Ave., Suite E.
> > Indianapolis, IN 46203
> > 317-780-5204
> >
> > ======================================================================
> >
> > from Wired News
> >
> > Hackers Ascend Upper 'Echelon'
> > by James Glave
> >
> > 3:00 a.m. 6.Oct.99.PDT
> > Mossad. Bomb. Davidian. M15.
> > If the hunch of a loose-knit group of cyber-activists is correct, the above
> > words will trip the keyword recognition filter on a global spy system partly
> > managed by the US National Security Agency.
> > The near-mythical worldwide computer spy network reportedly scans all email,
> > packet traffic, telephone conversations -- and more -- around the world, in
> > an effort to ferret out potential terrorist or enemy communications.
> >
> > Once plucked from the electronic cloud, certain keywords allegedly trigger a
> > recording of the conversation or email in question.
> > Privacy activists have used the words in their signature files for years as
> > a running schtick, but on 18 October, the American Justice Federation hopes
> > to trip up Echelon on a much wider scale.
> > "What is [Echelon] good for?" asked Linda Thompson, a constitutional rights
> > attorney and chairman of the American Justice Federation.
> > "If you want to say we can catch criminals with it, it is insane that anyone
> > should be able to snoop on anyone's conversations."
> > "Criminals ought to be caught after they commit a crime -- but police are
> > not here to invade all our privacy to catch that two percent [of criminal
> > communications]," she said.
> >
> > On 18 April, Thompson, along with Doug McIntosh, a reporter for the
> > federation's news service, and members of the hacktivism mailing list
> > community, invite anyone concerned about the system to append a list of
> > intriguing words to their emails.
> >
> > Specifically, they suggest the following keywords:
> > FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD WACO RUBY RIDGE OKC OKLAHOMA CITY MILITIA GUN
> > HANDGUN MILGOV ASSAULT RIFLE TERRORISM BOMB DRUG HORIUCHI KORESH DAVIDIAN
> > KAHL POSSE COMITATUS RANDY WEAVER VICKIE WEAVER SPECIAL FORCES LINDA
> > THOMPSON SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SOG SOF DELTA FORCE CONSTITUTION BILL OF
> > RIGHTS WHITEWATER POM PARK ON METER ARKANSIDE IRAN CONTRAS OLIVER NORTH
> > VINCE FOSTER PROMIS MOSSAD NASA MI5 ONI CID AK47 M16 C4 MALCOLM X REVOLUTION
> > CHEROKEE HILLARY BILL CLINTON GORE GEORGE BUSH WACKENHUT TERRORIST TASK
> > FORCE 160 SPECIAL OPS 12TH GROUP 5TH GROUP SF
> >
> > The campaign has spread around the Net and has been translated into German.
> > Organizers hope "gag Echelon day" catches on on a global scale as a means of
> > raising awareness of the system.
> >
> > Neither the NSA, nor its UK equivalent -- the Government Communications
> > Headquarters -- has admitted that the system exists, although its
> > capabilities have been debated in the European Parliament.
> >
> > Australia's Defense Signals Directorate, an agency allegedly involved in
> > Echelon, recently admitted the existence of UKUSA, the agreement between
> > five national communications agencies that reportedly governs the system.
> >
> > Last fall, the Washington-based civil liberties group Free Congress
> > Foundation sent a detailed report on the system to Congress, but the system
> > was not debated.
> >
> > The latest effort hopes to further boost public awareness of the system.
> >
> > "Most people are angry about it," said Thompson. "When you find out it is
> > not some science fiction movie, most people will be outraged."
> > But an Australian member of the activist community hopes that "jam Echelon
> > day" will be about public awareness of technologies of political control,
> > not about generating paranoia.
> > "Public awareness should empower -- not scare people aware from using the
> > Net," the activist, who identified himself only as Sam, said.
> >
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