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Sender: "Craig A. Johnson" <•••@••.•••>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:30:41 +0000
This is from Jim Warren's GovAccess.180.
Craig
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First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything
illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was
too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty
stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never
figure out how to work PGP anyway, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left
to speak up.
--based on a quote from Pastor Martin Niemoller
(Alara Rogers, Aleph Press) [via •••@••.•••]
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
Sender: Itai Sneh <•••@••.•••>
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Sailing to San Salvador
Now Armageddon has been fought and lost
reported on the entertainment page.
The Second Coming came and went, at last,
and Judgment Day was skipped, without the judge.
It was too easy not to note the cost
of getting through from youth to simple age,
from sleep to sleep, from one meal to the next,
while we excused ourselves with some pretext.
If it is over, why then should we care
a jot for blighted blooms and empty bellies?
Lies are easy for the unaware
to swear, and then to ask, Is this what Hell is?
Or is this a puff of empty air,
the gentle torture of the long and jealous
sigh that follows on a hurricane
and winnows all the issues that remain.
And tell me, is there more to come? If so,
as Isabella asked Columbus, why
has none come sailing back to let us know?
There might be anything beyond, but I
suggest the future turns behind a show
of history's tide marks that we can't deny.
I fling these questions in the teeth of night,
until these fleeting sails drop out of sight.
-- E. Russell Smith
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Posted by Richard K. Moore <•••@••.•••>
Wexford, Ireland (USA citizen)
Editor: The Cyberjournal (@CPSR.ORG)
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