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March 4, 2005 Martha Stewart is out of
prison, although she gets to wear electronic chains and tug at the forelock
to the Imperium for some months.
I suppose there are some people who think we are safer as a result of
jailing Martha Stewart, but I have yet to hear their rational arguments.
Everything I have heard sums up to "She wasn't nice, she wasn't humble
enough, and she needed to be taught a lesson she wouldn't forget." I haven't
heard many who think she ought to have been jailed talk about the "crime"
she committed.
Lest we forget: She was jailed for making false statements, not under
oath, to Federal Officers. One of those statements was to protest her
innocence of a crime she had not been indicted for, much less convicted of.
Even more interestingly, it turns out that what she denied doing was not a
crime whether she did it or not. So: for denying, not under oath, doing
something that was not a crime to begin with, she is sent to prison at great
expense to her and considerable expense to the Republic. Are we all safer?
Or was this merely an exercise in converting us all from citizens of a
Republic to subjects of an empire? You will say no one intended that result
by this prosecution. I will ask, what might you to in aid of that result if
you did intend it? Doesn't this accomplish the result while satisfying a
number of people who just can't stand her success?
And again I ask: why is it a crime to lie to a federal investigator?
Submitting a signed statement under penalty of perjury is one thing; to blow
off an inquisitive investigator on a fishing trip is quite another, and
should the the right of any citizen (as opposed to a subject).
My advice for all is in future, never talk to Federal Investigators even
if they are clearly investigating heinous crimes. Cooperating with them is
hazardous to your health. Yes, I know: in a Republic we are all expected to
aid the government in its efforts to defend the laws. In an Empire, though,
you must protect yourself for the government has no interest in your
protection: its minions are out to achieve track records and rise in the
imperial bureaucracy. Except for the minions who brought off this coup, just
who in these United States benefitted from the jailing of Martha Stewart?
Who even pretends to be better off as a result of this exercise in
prosecution for Maiastas?
And see mail see also
the Berger Case
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We interrupt this rant for an urgent message:
Subject: DNS cache poisoning for ebay.com, google.com,
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http://isc.sans.org/diary.php
Folks need to block access via ACLs or firewall rules
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These IPs should be blocked immediately (via IP, not
via domain-name).
Be sure and check
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php
for updates.
--- Roland Dobbins
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Subject: Conquest Article -
Jerry: There was a key line in the article that should
generate considerable debate -- "More broadly, in the West it has been
tradition that has been generally determinant of public policy. Habituation
is more central to a viable constitution than any other factor."
The country is evolving into different sense of itself
through another massive in-migration, I find it probable that the WASP path
of the past is about to abruptly shift direction. The Latina population will
not long reside as an undereducated, docile underclass that the current
"ruling class" presumes. Nor will their rising expectations accept the poor
performance of public education to the relative economic benefit of those
who can afford private education.
Allan Smalley
Precisely, and note how this notion fits with the Stewart case. Free
people are not equal, and equal people are not free.
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Is there a OneNote expert out there? OneNote
is a wonderful program so long as you don't try to share things with
yourself of keep it running on more than one computer. When I do that, it
insists on opening files I did not ask for, and refusing to delete junk I
don't want, and generally behaving in an insane way. It is the lack of
OneNote and other TabletPC support that keeps me from just going to the Mac
and having done with it, but the OneNote designers were too clever by half
and don't let you handle data files in a way that has anything to do with
the way any other program on earth names, shares, and loads files.
If anyone knows how to get OneNote to open a data file created on another
computer with a different instance of OneNote I would appreciate explicit
directions. It keeps thwarting my every effort. I just want to be able to
take notes on my laptop, come home, and open that note section on my
desktop. I don't see why that is unreasonable, but I certainly can't
do it. It is as if it were designed to prevent me from doing this.
NOTE: I have solved this problem and I will be reporting on it in the
column. Thanks to all including the Microsoft product managers who helped
with this.
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