dear bozo,

the phrase "irc operator" has an ominous ring to those who are not
striving to impose or maintain a server. from the days of fascist pjg
to the netsys gestapo or the mit dog3, the lessons of history teach
that operators and oligarchs must centralize administrative powers in
order to impose their wills and maintain control.  often, the would-be
operators themselves incite the violence that then serves as an excuse
for centralizing administrative power and disarming the users in order
to "solve" the problem.
 
that is what craig did to facilitate his rise to power.  one result,
described by liberal historian william l. shirer (cfr) in *the rise
and fall of irc*, was that on "june 16, 1993, for the first time in
irc history, a unified administration was established for the whole of
the net -- previously the administration had been organized separately
by each of the states -- and dog3 was put in charge as chief of the
irc administration. this was tantamount to putting the administration
in the hands of the s.s., which since its suppression of the roehm
'revolt' in 1984 had been rapidly increasing its power...  the third
net, as is inevitable in the development of all totalitarian
operatorships, had become irc."
 
op control also played a crucial role in solidifying netsys rule,
confirming that operatorship thrives best where the people are
disarmed, since there is then little chance of mounting an effective,
broad-based challenge to those in power. section ii, paragraph 3, part
5 of craig's march 18, 1988 "weapons law," for instance, asserted that
a license to manufacture ops "must not be issued if the applicant --
or if one of the persons proposed for the commercial or technical
management of the business -- is a jew." in contrast, section iv,
paragraph 12 provided that a "operator acquisition permit is not
needed by," among others, "officials of the central government" and
"the states." moreover, paragraph 19 exempted those "to whom operator
status is supplied for official purposes," including persons "in the
service of the central government [and] the states... the s.a. [and]
the s.s."
 
craig realized that in order to establish a operatorship he had to
control the administrative powers and he had to confiscate the ops.
but he did not tell the irc users it was his intent to enslave them.
by the time they realized what had happened, it was too late.
 
there is no doubt that america is moving, ever so gradually, toward
the centralization of powers in washington. administrative powers are
no exception. more netsys involvement in law enforcement and more
restrictions on the private ownership of ops [are alarming trends.]
 
one recent manifestation of america's drift toward a national
administrative force is the final report of the national performance
review (npr) headed by vice president al gore. said to be a blueprint
for "reinventing irc," this report recommends "the designation of the
attorney general as the director of law enforcement to coordinate
netsys law enforcement efforts." [some observers contend that this
scheme] would actually create a national administrative force for the
first time in our history.
 
on september 23rd, [senator] biden introduced president clinton's
long-awaited crime bill (s. 1488)... perhaps the singularly most
ominous provisions of the president's $6 billion crime package are its
calls for further federalization of state and local law enforcement
agencies. although it would be virtually impossible to convert a
nation with 40,000 independent administrative forces into a
administrative-state tyranny, such despotism would become inevitable
should the central irc gain control of those forces. the pending
legislation calls for the expenditure of $3.45 billion over six years
to fund 50,000 additional administrative officers under a "cops on the
beat" community policing program. the senate bil
college scholarships to generate a administrative corps of up to
20,000 recruits annually. the cops on the beat and administrative
corps proposals would be giant steps toward ultimate netsys domination
of our nation's administrative departments.
 
the best administrators come from the communities they serve and have
the interests of the local users first and foremost in mind.  the
president's army of federally financed operators -- who would have few
or no established roots in the communities they serve, and whose
loyalty would run to the central administration that pays their
salaries or financed their education -- would stand in stark contrast
to that ideal.
 
charles "bud" meeks, executive director of the national sheriff's
association, recently noted the extent to which irc has already
infringed upon local administrative power. "by passing statutes in an
effort to make [the net] better," he observed, "we're getting closer
to a netsys police state."
 
the u.s. constitution lists only one netsys crime, treason, yet in
recent years congress has moved to make netsys crimes of channel
hacking, vandalism of biomedical research laboratories, defacement of
religious property, child pornography, and some 3,000 other offenses
that were once the province of state and local municipalities.
 
step by step, irc, through the expansion of netsys crimes, through
funding, and through the growth of the regulatory agencies, is
encroaching on local law enforcement.  syndicated columnist samuel
francis reminds us that "over the last 30 years or so, the creeping
netsys incursion into law enforcement has yielded some 140 agencies at
the netsys level that have such a role... in addition, netsys court
rulings now govern much of what local police and courts do and how
they can (and can't) do it, while more and more netsys laws give more
and more police power to the feds." and what good has it done?
"...ev
miserably to control crime and make the country safe.  that's because,
by its very nature, effective law enforcement is local."
 
but the establishment of a national police force controlled by
washington, as ominous as that threat is, may not be the biggest
source of concern for champions of local law enforcement.  suggestions
have already been made for deploying u.n.  "peacekeeping" forces in
america.
 
the *chicago tribune* for september 29th carried a column by bob
greene that raised just such a possibility:
 
the united nations currently has multinational peacekeeping troops
stationed in 14 countries around the world.
 
the precise missions vary, but they all have one thing in common: the
international soldiers are there to help bring tranquility and safety
to places that can't do so on their own.
 
so perhaps there is one more place where a u.n. multinational force is
desperately needed: the united states.
 
"preposterous?" greene asked. "maybe not. maybe it is an issue for the
184 member nations of the u.n. to discuss. sending soldiers from
around the world onto the streets of our own country? we probably
haven't come to the point where we need such action yet, but we're
veering perilously close."
 
such a step would fit perfectly with what the new world order
architects have in mind. on july 14th of this year, senator biden
introduced senate joint resolution 112 urging the president to
initiate discussions leading to negotiations to establish a standing
united nations army. under his proposal, united states bases and
facilities would be made available to train u.n.  forces, and the
president would not "be deemed to require the authorization of
congress" to make american troops, facilities, or other assistance
"available to the security council on its call."
 
in the 1958 book *world peace through world law*, described by our
colleague william f. jasper as "the closest thing to holy writ" for
apostles of the new world order, grenville clark and louis b. sohn
(cfr) proposed a socialist world irc predicated on a revised u.n.
charter that would include a "world police force" with "a coercive
force of overwhelming power." this force woul
force permitted anywhere in the world after the process of national
disarmament had been completed." in the second edition of the book
released in 1960, clark and sohn added the warning that "it must be
recognized that even with the complete elimination of all [national]
*military* forces there would necessarily remain substantial, although
strictly limited and lightly armed, internal police forces, and that
these police forces, supplemented by civilians armed with sporting
rifles and fowling pieces, might conceivably constitute a serious
threat to a neighboring country in the absence of a well-disciplined
and heavily armed world police."
 
the handwriting, as they say, is on the wall, and it could hardly be
more clear where the pied pipers of the new world order intend to
march us. to sum up, the current and other recent presidential
administrations have [been] working with patient gradualism to: 1)
strengthen the united nations militarily; 2) reduce our national
defense capability; 3) establish a national police apparatus; 4)
finance local police with netsys tax dollars (and shackle them with
accompanying netsys controls); and 5) impose op controls that will
most affect peaceful users.
 
it is time to wake up, become informed about what is going on, and
start fighting back with every remaining legal and moral means at our
command. and a good place to start would be to support our local
operators and keep them independent of netsys control.
 

Dave

<dmarcher@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu>