Bush's Master Plan For The Internet

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Bush's Master = Plan For The=20 Internet
By Kurt Nimmo =
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Bush and his Machiavellian minions will no = longer=20 put up with you roaming free into dangerous territory on the = internet.=20 You need to be corralled, electronically tethered, kept away = from=20 sites promoting conspiracy theories -- in other words, = information the=20 corporate media, the official US Ministry of Disinformation, = does not=20 want you to read or see. It's now increasingly obvious the = Bushites=20 want to lock us up in a hermetically sealed informational box = and=20 throw away the key. All the information they consider = worthwhile will=20 be pumped in through a one-way hole.=20
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During war, as they say, the first = causality is=20 truth. And war -- all the time and everywhere people resist -- = is what=20 Bush will deliver. It will be easier for him to accomplish = this if you=20 can't read the truth, if you remain ignorant, or if you are = obstructed=20 from organizing and speaking out on the internet against war = and=20 madness. Bush knows this -- or, at least, those around him = know this.=20 The internet, regardless of its trashy and lame commercial=20 characteristics, is a nearly perfect medium for organizing. = It's a=20 thorn in the side of neo-cons and fascists everywhere.=20
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Enter Dubya's Critical Infrastructure = Protection=20 Board (CIPB), which the unelected one created with a flourish = of his=20 pen (another executive order, a most popular way to rule = vassals). The=20 men and women around Bush want to require internet service = providers,=20 ISPs, to build a centralized network capable of monitoring = where you=20 go, what you look at and read, what you write in your email -- = and all=20 in real-time. Of course, they don't say this. What they say is = they=20 want to protect you against viruses and terrorist attacks. = They want=20 to shield you from Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, who are = everywhere, ready to attack, even on the internet (Osama's = cave in=20 Tora Bora, don't you know, bristled with computers and crack = virus=20 software programmers).=20
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CIPB is working on a report, "The National = Strategy=20 to Secure Cyberspace," which it will release early next year. = It is=20 billed as a strategy for the Ministry of Homeland Security and = -- this=20 is the laughable part -- is subject to congressional review. = Yeah,=20 like Congress protected us from Bush's totalitarian Patriot = Act and=20 the Ministry of Homeland Security bill. What a joke. 99% of = these=20 folks are Bush co-conspirators. When Bush tells them to jump, = they ask=20 how high. Your right to travel through cyberspace without a = snoop=20 noting your every move is one of the next hoops Bush will wave = before=20 an obeisant Congress. The internet is one of the last bastions = of=20 resistance. Besides, some rabble-rouser posted the Anarchist's = Cookbook on there.=20
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Of course, converting the internet into a = big=20 Carnivore system is one thing, while denying you access is = quite=20 another. Bush's centralized system will make this a reality. = Get=20 labeled a malcontent, a "security risk," or even a = "cyber-terrorist"=20 and you can be easily barred from Bush's "secure, trusted, = robust,=20 reliable, and available infrastructure." Say the wrong thing = on a=20 bulletin board or forum and your ISP -- afraid of the = government=20 breathing down its neck, yanking its business license, or = sicking the=20 IRS on it -- may terminate your service. Hell, if things go as = Bush=20 and Clan envision most small ISPs will go out of business, = replaced by=20 AOL, Comcast, and other rich communications industry friends = and big=20 dollar contributors to Project Bush.=20
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Dubya wants to essentially authorize a = Department of=20 Approved Internet Use within the Ministry of Homeland = Security. This=20 new department will create and demand implementation of new = network=20 protocols, take over the task of verifying IT vendors (so much = for the=20 conservative idea of getting rid of big government), and issue = security assessment and policy tools (maybe Dubya can roll = Microsoft=20 into the Ministry of Homeland Security, demand everybody use = Windows=20 instead of Mac or Linux because Windows will be "secure" and = adapt, at=20 taxpayer expense, the latest government mandated protocols). = Don't=20 worry about the cost -- this idea comes from the guys who = think a $200=20 billion war is nothing to sweat, even if it wrecks the = economy. Plus,=20 a lot of the cost will be picked up by the ISPs, which is to = say you,=20 the subscriber. Nothing like paying through the nose to have = the=20 government turn your computer into a Carnivore box.=20
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Just in case you think I'm playing fast = and loose=20 with the word "Carnivore," consider what an official with a = major data=20 services company who has was briefed on several aspects of the = government's plans told John Markoff of the New York Times the = other=20 day, "Part of monitoring the Internet and doing real-time = analysis is=20 to be able to track incidents while they are occurring... Am I = analogizing this to Carnivore? Absolutely. But in fact, it's = 10 times=20 worse. Carnivore was working on much smaller feeds and could = not=20 scale. This is looking at the whole Internet." OK, I inserted = the=20 required quote from a "respected" source, so I guess we can = all rest=20 easier now. The idea of Bush squashing a (relatively) free and = unhampered internet has now broken free of the besmeared realm = of=20 conspiracy theory. Hallelujah!=20
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So there you have it, in a nutshell. You = can't be=20 trusted and you will never have privacy again -- not on the = internet,=20 not with your bank or credit card transactions, medical = records, not=20 when you fly on a plane or cross the border, and certainly not = if you=20 decide Bush and his neo-con fascists are wrong about forever = war and=20 you decide you want to do something about it. As it looks now, = things=20 are moving in a bleak direction rather quickly. But even = Russians=20 under the yoke of Soviet communism managed to publish = samizdats --=20 typed on manual typewriters with multiple carbons, since the=20 photocopying machines were locked up and closely watched by = the state=20 -- and news thus disseminated, people learned the = truth.=20
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Somewhere buried in a box in the closet of = my=20 apartment is BBS software on an old, dusty floppy disk. In the = days=20 before the web -- when the internet was mostly confined to = computer=20 students, faculty, government types, and other such privileged = geeks=20 -- a few of us dialed into computers running BBS software. If = Bush and=20 his Critical Infrastructure Protection Board bureaucrats have = their=20 way, we may be forced to return to those less sophisticated = days. Call=20 it a dial-up samizdat where information remains free. Of = course,=20 sooner or later, Bush will get around to making this illegal, = too. But=20 where there's a will, there's a way. We may even be reduced to = sending=20 CD-ROMs via snail-mail in the future. Or passing them = hand-to-hand=20 under the cover of darkness. Truth refuses to be suppressed. = It will=20 always break out, regardless of the technology.=20
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Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and = multimedia=20 developer in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Visit his excellent = online=20 gallery. He can be reached at: nimmo@zianet.com=20
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We highly recommend frequent visits to = Nimmo's=20 website, Another Day in the Empire=20
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