psychoceramics: Re: WARNING! DANGER! ALL INTERNET USERS

[spl @ szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)]

> AT&T, Bell South, Sprint, MCI, have engaged in an illegal conspiracy. They
> are hiding from the public their true involvement in possibly hundreds of
> "front" Internet Service Provider and other telecommunication companies. 

It's not the illegal conspiracy that we need to fear but the quite
legal and open consolidation of media ownership and control within the
grasp of a few large, multinational corporations.

There are also legitimate privacy concerns over the growing
capabilities of digital monitoring, though, again, I'm more concerned
about TRW and Equifax building a dossier about my buying habits and
selling it and my personal information to whomever has the right price.

> There is much going on here that is very frightening.  You think 56kbps
> speed is and pushing the barrier for standard household wiring?  They are
> withholding the truth!  If they were not waiting for another reason….RIGHT
> NOW YOU COULD GET   9-20  MEGABYTES PER SECOND!!!!! OVER STANDARD HOME
> TELEPHONE LINES!!!   Check out their ADSL "Forum": 
> http://www.adsl.com/index.html

This is actually pretty interesting stuff.  If you read the documents
online it looks as if the telcos are working toward this.  There
doesn't seem to be any "conspiracy" to suppress this technology or
that anyone is withholding the "truth."

> We have thousands of pages of their own documents which describe a police
> type state within a few years. 
> 
> The DoD (military) 1997 strategic assessment says: "Internal unrest and
> extreme human rights violations can be expected…."  They conclude by
> saying:  "While most of the response will be from civilian authorities, the
> military will become increasingly involved." WHAT IS GOING ON?!!!!   THIS
> IS THE USA THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!  Check it out for yourself:
> http://www.dtic.mil/defenselink/news/Feb97/b020497_bt053-97.html

And if you do read it you'll find that the 'civilian authorites'
to which they refer are the civil authorities of other nations.  From
the context of the press release, it's pretty clear that when they
refer to 'states' they're referring to other nations, not the States
of the United States.  Whether this is a selective quote out of
context or a deliberate misreading of the press release I'm not sure
but the interpretation is just flat wrong.

There are distrubing aspects to the press release, particularly in the
suggestion that the military must be maintained at a level to
"... discourage [Russia and China] from investing the resources to
become future opponents," from which one could infer that continued
Cold War levels of defense expenditures would be in the future.  In
addition, the suggestion that the US miltary be interposed "in
troubled [foreign] states and in international operations countering
terrorism and drug trafficking."

> Why have our Special Forces, Rangers, SEALS, etc. been training at night
> with explosives in at least 5 US cities (but only been reported in those
> local papers!!??) for the suppression of domestic dissenters!!!!
> Ft Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, 11/5/96 & 11/18/96, Charlotte Observer
> 3/5-6/97, etc.

Yes, and just up the road from me the Marines at Camp Pendelton are
constantly practicing amphibious landings.  So what?

>                    ... We are organizing an Internet Users Group that will
> help fight this, and locate for you an honest, locally based ISP, that
> agrees to a code of conduct which includes clauses pertaining to: privacy,
> civil rights, individual freedom, anti-snoop, U.S. Constitution, and the
> Bill of Rights.  WE MUST STOP THIS NOW! 

Somehow at the bottom line of this it seems that this is a ploy to
steal subscribers from ISPs...

							spl