[iwar] Historical posting
From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
At 06:33 AM 10/17/1999 -0700, Fred Cohen wrote:
>Right - we terrorized ourselves. We were so afraid of what might happen
>that we invented the enemy and invoked them as the cause of out
>troubles. We started blaming the 'usual suspects' to carry out foreign
>and domestic policies designed to further limit freedom.
"We" did not do this; some of "them" did this. "They" seem to include the
FBI, which has a pretty broad shopping list of permissions they're seeking
(sacrificing a little freedom for temporary security), and various media
sources, who find the terrorism hook a ratings catalyst. Now then, "they"
seem to have snookered a great many people into being concerned (if not
terrified) by statistically erroneous conclusions... that's our fault, for
not speaking out and challenging invalid claims and assumptions.
Emo Phillips said, "I used to think the brain was the most important organ
in the body, but then I thought, 'wait, who's telling me that?'"
>So you think there there are lots of terrorist attempts but that few
>succeed. Terrorism is alive and well, but terror is not happening.
No, I never said there were lots of terrorist attempts. Terrorists are
lonely, and relatively few.
Ross
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