"Revenge Of the Nerds"
by William Stone, III
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The "Homeland Security Act" is the usual kind of atrocity that we've all come to expect from the would-be slave-holders in Washington. In an astounding violation of their Oaths of Office, lawmakers have passed a bill that violates every single one of the Bill of Rights.
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In a marvellous display of ignorance
(explained to me by a coworker who is a Russian expatriate), one of the Russian
translations of "Homeland Security" is "KGB." For brevity's sake, the Act
and the Unconstitutional, immoral Federal offices it creates will hereafter
be referred to as "the American KGB."
Under the KGB, Americans no longer
have any Constitutional guarantees. None. Not that this comes
as a surprise to anyone who's been paying even the slightest bit of attention
to American political discourse over the last century. Federal officials
have been in the process of murdering the Constitutional Republic since the
Lincoln Administration. The American KGB simply pounds the final nail into
its coffin, creating the de facto police state about which politicians have
always dreamed.
What the American KGB proves - beyond
a shadow of a doubt - is that we can no longer depend on government to safeguard
our liberties. With the passage of this Act, it becomes clear that government
is the primary violator of our liberties.
We can no longer believe that government
will help us out of this mess. Government is the mess.
One of the central tenets of the
American KGB is the creation of the "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) program. Masterminded by the aptly-named criminal [Former National Security adviser] John Poindexter, TIA will be a vast,
centralized government database that will monitor the actions of every man,
woman, and child in America from cradle to grave.
The American KGB will monitor all
your financial transactions: credit card and white market cash purchases,
ATM transactions, cash withdrawls or deposits, checking account transactions,
investments, IRAs, etc. It will monitor your medical data, your travel habits,
your Internet usage, and your phone calls. It will monitor what books and
magazines you read. It will monitor and store your private and business
correspondence.
Particular attention will be focused
on your defense choices, making the TIA program a de facto Federal gun
registration database. The hobby of reloading is essentially over, as the
American KGB establishes new rules for "explosive" purchases that will make
it illegal for reloaders to obtain the necessary chemicals without a Federal
license.
Is there be any doubt that the
Republicans are just as dedicated to victim disarmament as the Democrats?
In the name of "fighting terrorism" a Republican administration has
single-handedly guaranteed more innocent deaths via "gun control" than every
Democrat in the collective history of the nation. This in the face of the
irrefutable fact that September 11 would not have been possible had the
individuals aboard the hijacked aircraft not been Unconstitutionally prohibited
from exercising their natural right to self-defense.
Once more, the Republicans prove
that America doesn't have two political parties, but rather identical political
cousins played by Patty Duke.
TIA is the "permanent record" that
your gradeschool principle always threatened you about. That it is unspeakably
evil is obvious.
Contrary to what most individuals
believe, the FedGov does not presently have the technology to track this
kind of information. As a computer nerd employed by a major credit card issuer,
I can categorically state that neither my company nor any other financial
institution is currently sending customer records to the FedGov. Similarly,
your doctor, travel agent or airline, magazine, library, and ISP are not
presently mirroring this information to the FedGov.
This means that all of the TIA systems
- both those in the FedGov and those that providers will use to send the
data - must be be constructed. This process, even using private-sector talent
(invariably several orders of magnitude superior to that available to government)
will take years.
This is where the FedGov has made
its critical mistake in the attempt to create a police state. The systems
won't just magically appear, they'll be constructed. Nor will they
be constructed by laymen using Microsoft Excel, but by professionals.
Our hope now lies in the individual.
It lies in a place that should leave any government toady quaking in his
boots:
Our hope now rests on the nerds.
Understand, please, that I intend no malice when I use the word "nerd."
I myself am an Information Security
professional, one of only two holders of the coveted "CISSP" certification
in the state of South Dakota. I've proudly been a nerd since 1979,
when my father bought his first computer for his business.
The TIA systems will be built by
the nerds. We control information systems and the Internet, not some
Federal agency. This evil abomination of a law is only possible if we nerds
cooperate in creating it.
Do you hear me, President Bush, Senator
Daschle, and Congressman Thune? We control these things, not
you. Your systems exist solely because we choose to
cooperate.
It's now time for you to learn the
truth of that statement. It's time for we nerds to become the front-line
warriors in the cause of individual liberty.
My friends, fellow nerds, we must
refuse to cooperate.
- If you work for a bank, as I do,
when your employer assigns you the task of creating the system to mirror
customer data to the FedGov, you must refuse
- If you work for an ISP, and are ordered
to track and mirror Internet traffic and e-mail to the FedGov, you must
refuse
- If you work for a travel agency,
magazine, or library and are ordered to mirror information to the FedGov,
you must refuse
- If you work for a gun store (or
other retail store) and create the systems used to track customer purchases,
you must refuse
- If you work for the FedGov and are
ordered to create the systems to house the data sent to you, you must
refuse
Understand the consequences of
non-compliance, potentially far more deadly than at any time in American
history:
Under the American KGB, any refusal
to cooperate in the hideously evil TIA program will brand us as terrorists
under Federal law. We will therefore no longer be subject to normal proceedings,
such as an attorney or trial. We will be termed "enemy combatants," meaning
that the American KGB may do anything they like to us.
Many of us will lose our lives and
fortunes. When my employer is ordered by regulatory agencies to comply with
FedGov edicts, failure risks the end of his business. He will therefore want
to fire me when I refuse to cooperate.
It may be that the KGB will want
to make an example of me. They may whisk me away in the dead of night (as
is common practice for gun owners, individuals with unusual religious practices,
drug users, prostitutes, and other persons whose "crimes" harm no one but
themselves). They may wish to beat me into submission and make me recant
my words. They may simply take me out and shoot me. Under the American KGB,
there are no pesky Constitutional guarantees to get in the way.
If they don't do it to me, no doubt
one of my fellow nerds reading this column will become such a victim.
Know this, however: while we can
and will lose our lives and fortunes, refusing to cooperate with the American
KGB is the only way to retain our sacred honor. In the immortal words of
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
"They may torture my body, break
my bones, or even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, not my
obedience."
My friends, my brother and sister
nerds, my comrades-in-arms: we are called. This is our time. We must
step forward to the challenge, to do our part to see that our children are
not burdened with the chains of slavery our governments wish to place on
them. We must stand together, united in our cause, and refuse to be the spineless
lackeys that the FedGov believes us to be.
We are our nation's, our children's,
our entire way of life's best hope. If we fail now, the only recourse our
children will have is bloody revolution.
That is our choice: stand now or
force revolution on our children.
I invite you to join me in a solemn
vow, a covenant between ourselves and those we protect:
Come what may, we will not submit
to this evil law.
The FedGov has just made this
our war. Let them cower in fear before the revenge of the nerds.
- – William Stone, III
William Stone, III is a computer
nerd and philosopher of the Zero Aggression Principle from McCook Lake, South
Dakota. He seeks the Libertarian Party's nomination for the 2004 Senate race
is South Dakota, and is currently a candidate for the post of Commissioner of Public Lands and Schools.
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