Subject: Virtual Crazy Horse

From: Bob Allisat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:29:24 -0400 (EDT)

We as citizens utilizing this medium
 of communications are more and more
 backed into a corner by the pressure 
 of recent events. Postel/IANA and
 Baptista/NSI, joined by their many
 supporters and share-holders have
 deliveres Magaziner/The White House
 with a fait accompli that dispenses
 with our rights and duties as free
 people in democratic societies to
 particpation, oversight and invole-
 ment. A private deal, parcelling
 out our future to a closed allegedly
 non-profit organiztion is about to
 be formalized and institutionalized.
 We are left with few alternatives.

 One is to  rely on the inherant
 structure of the medium to deal
 with what is in essense a very
 subtle and sophisticated blockage.
 Then again we now are dealing with
 the very people who constructed
 the infra-structure we propose to
 utilize essentially in their undoing.
 The chances that Internet architecture
 was created without built-in and
 perhaps covert mechanisms to avoid
 it's nuclear-war sustainable power
 being used against it's masters
 are un-likely. It's just possible 
 that the Americans were fool enough
 to build it without back-doors, trap-
 doors or various security caches
 and routers. But I highly doubt it.

 Therefore we are left with fighting
 our Little Big Horns on ground
 entirely controlled and dominated
 by our adversaries. An unenviable
 and martyr-making proposition. The
 alternative, wholesale retreat before
 unprecedented incursions against our
 rights, liberties and freedoms as
 citizens is, alas, even more un-
 acceptable. So we stand, faced with
 a difficult probably hopeless future.

 And yet we must carry forward as all
 oppressed and liberty loving men and
 women have done in our history. We
 hope and fight that the inherant
 love of freedom and truth in every
 human being dominates in the end to
 toss off instruments of bondage and
 enslavement. We persevere in the face
 of extreme odds and great adversaries
 in the belief that humanity is not
 as brutal, stupid and visionless as
 it's so-called leaders behave but
 is just, wise and knowing once presented
 with the facts, clear alternatives
 and relentless adherance to the pursuit
 of the general good.

 In that spirit we endure.

 Bob Allisat

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