FC: Chuck0 replies to FBI investigation post, says he was joking

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Previous message:

"FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to Politech"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02219.html

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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:28:17 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck () tao ca>
Organization: Infoshop.org
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
CC: politech () politechbot com, aaronl () cato org
Subject: Re: FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to 
Politech

Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> The FBI is investigating an alleged threat against the Cato Institute, the
> world's leading free-market think tank, sent to Politech.
>
> Chuck0 <chuck () tao ca> sent a message to Politech that I forwarded -- as
> part of an ongoing discussion about privacy and globalization -- on Monday:
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02214.html
>
> The message said: "Cato's little insult of the black bloc means that we'll
> be paying Cato HQ a visit this coming September. People who work in glass
> buildings shouldn't throw the first rhetorical stones."

It's interesting that so-called "libertarians" would run to the FBI when they
can't take a joke. My response to Declan McCullagh concerning Aaron Lukas'
article, a journalist whose work I respect and read on a regular basis, was
meant for Declan's eyes only, not the entirety of the Politech list.

My comment about the "black bloc means that we'll be paying Cato HQ a visit 
this
coming September" didn't say anything about what the black bloc would do 
once it
reached Cato. It's not like I can tell the black bloc what to do. I they chose
to do this, perhaps they would consense to smoking some weed with the
Libertarians, since we do see eye to eye on drug policy. Of course, there are
many things we don't see eye to eye on, including free markets, free trade, and
running to the FBI when we can't take a joke.

<< Chuck0 >>

Infoshop.org    -> http://www.infoshop.org/
Alternative Press Review -> http://www.altpr.org/
Practical Anarchy Online -> http://www.practicalanarchy.org/
Homepage -> http://flag.blackened.net/chuck0/home/

INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE

An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was
told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese 
was to
shout 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's unfriendly. So I saw this
dude and yelled 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with
President Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."

(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).

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[Since Chuck0 sent his message to declan () well com and copied the 
politech () politechbot com list address, I concluded it was intended for 
public distribution. --Declan]

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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:03:15 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Subject: Re: FC: FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent 
to Politech

> The FBI is investigating an alleged threat against the Cato Institute
...

One wonders if the FBI would leap forward as quickly, to diligently 
investigate every similar threat against, say, the ACLU or Earth First or 
the anti-corporate IndyMedia operations (ad hoc Independent Media Centers) 
... or SOA Watch (School of the Americas Watch; www.soaw.org), that has 
been picketing for years, against US-govt training of Latin American 
police[*], etc.

Oh ... I forgot.  This is Amerika ... where selective enforcement is the 
norm (e.g. percentage of white coke users in our prisons vs. that of 
non-whites).

--jim

[*] - "Graduates of the SOA are responsible for some of the worst human 
rights abuses in Latin America. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are 
notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo 
Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, 
Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. 
Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that 
include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote 
Massacre of 900 civilians."

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