From a Free Republic message--"our" government at work?
"Hacker Raid Helps Clinton Cyber - Crime Push"

And JUST when he needed the push, too!

It's just AMAZING how these things happen just when Clinton needs them.

Anti-terrorism package can't get through congress? Oklahoma City bombing!

Gun control stalled and Colorado about to pass conceal carry? Columbine! (They never did find that third shooter, did they).

Too many newspapers paying too much attention to people who saw a missile hit TWA 800? Olympic Park bombing just a week later!

Impeachment imminent? Monica testifying? Bomb something (anything).

And now when the government is trying to justify adding more controls to the internet, a massive "hacker" attack and total media saturation.

What an incredible string of coincidences!!!!!!!

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38a33cb537a7.htm

The tactic is called "pressure from above and pressure from below". A Communist book, called "And Not a Shot is Fired", explains this entire strategy. This book explains how a free government is actually transformed into a totalitarian dictatorship - legally. To short explanation involves only two statements:

!. Continuously create new problems.
2. "Solve" every problem with an increase in power for government

When local police cannot maintain order, THEN the BATF, the FBI, the Marines, or any other federal agency will be needed, and will be asked, to "help". The ultimate result is the creation of Gestapo Law enforcement.

Stopping this deception could make it unnecessary to fight.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j021100.html

CYBERCOPS UNLEASHED

The wave of cyber-attacks on Yahoo! and a host of other major US websites was in its second day when Janet Reno came riding in on her white horse, promising us "protection" and vowing to get to the bottom of a disruption that horrified investors and roiled the markets. Her FBI henchmen were quick to offer their own "solution": "The key to this is prevention," said Ron Dick, chief of computer investigations and operations at the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the latest FBI "cyber-crime" boondoggle. But how? How will the cybercops "prevent" vandalism on the Internet?

THE LIES OF JANET RENO

The ominous answer: by installing a comprehensive surveillance system that will keep tabs on all Internet traffic. As Rep. Bob Barr put it in a letter to the cyber-bureaucracy, the federal government has been pushing for years "to force a surveillance-friendly architecture on the Internet." Back in 1994, when the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) was passed, Attorney General Janet Reno solemnly assured us that it was merely an updating of existing wiretapping law, and did not represent an extension of government power on the Internet. But it hasn't worked out that way. CALEA was no sooner enacted then law enforcement officials began a concerted campaign to pressure the telecommunications industry to adopt monitoring capabilities that, as Barr put it, go "far beyond the status quo, CALEA's mandates, the intent of Congress, and the Fourth Amendment." The industry has been backed into a corner: telecommunications companies that refuse to go along with the new protocols can either comply or fight the government in court. Guess which alternative they are likely to take. . . .

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

Gee, what a coincidence: the first cyber-attack, on the popular Yahoo! site, occurred on the very same day as news of President's Clinton's proposed budget increase for Internet monitoring, from $15 million to $240 million, hit the wires. The money is a subsidy to telephone companies, a reward for reconstructing their networks to make Internet snooping by the feds more practical.

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