From the aftermath of Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Waco hearing and the soon to come Ruby Ridge hearing, it appears cyberspace is about to make its first serious impact on the United States government, to bring down the BATF and the FBI as a minimum. Certainly all the devil's along the way get their due, some very few in the media willing to raise the issue when it is not in news. ABC as the least biased of the TV networks.
But it was cyberspace and the FAX networks, all the variations of electronic data transfer that have changed the country since Ruby Ridge. It was not the mainstream media that kept the issues before the public. It was not the commercial media that told people about militias. It was the truly free medium of exchange, cyberspace.
It was not the commercial media encouraging people to write their congressrats it was cyberspace. It was not congressrats sitting in a vacuum who decided to call hearings on Waco. It was people like you and me annoying them until they did.
And our record is that the recent Waco hearing was scheduled barely 15 months after the ashes were cool; it just took another year to get the act together. And it was a stunning victory by its own measure; the first time a major issue was forced in Congress without the commercial media being involved. It certainly did not go far enough but it established every major point against the two agencies and recorded dozens of unindicted felonies.
The effort was so successful that the FBI is doing some pre-damage control by discovering after three years that there were a few improper occurrences at Ruby Ridge. It took over three years for the Justice Department to at least pretend to live up to its name and act upon what all of knew at the time it occurred. But these are only suspensions in prospect of hearings; we will not let them forget after those hearings.
Cyberspace is the driving force behind these hearings. Cyberspace is the reason we are having hearings on these murderous agencies. Cyberspace is the reason they are going to come down with a very hard fall.
We are not just sharing newspaper stories. We are sharing the bullshit the government gives us in response. We are pointing out where it is bullshit. We are ahead of all the journalism majors that blight the commercial media.
The real fallout of cyberspace that we have an alternate source of information than journalism majors who have no concept of anything other than journalism. We use them only for notice as to what happened today, not for any understanding of what happened today.
If the question is about the use of infrared are you going to turn to some talking head in TV make up or a physicist in cyberspace? On the subject of chemistry, Barbara Walters or an on-line chemist? On the effects of CS, Ted Koppel or an Army instructor in CS gas?
We are over the top. Both the Waco and Ruby Ridge hearings are our doing. The pre-emptive suspensions after over three years of FBI higher ups including the recently promoted Larry Potts are our doing. We have the momentum. We are not going to stop.
The naysayers among us are the useful foils for perfecting arguments against these agencies and what they have done and what they are doing. They earn their keep.
This is not the evening news, with a pretentious opening screen, dramatic music, and perfectly groomed people in business suits. This is a From:, To:, Subj: and twit filtered environment. You don't meet image-maker tailored icons here. You meet folks really might be picking their nose on the other side of that screen. We are all human beings with faults rather than a New York image with a midwest non-accent.
And if you missed it, one of the things that died as a result of the Waco hearing was HR 666. The power of the people on cyberspace has been established. It is an every-edged sword. We have the power to get to Congress and to make things happen.
It is not Rush Limbaugh but he helps and he is part of cyberspace. It is not Gingrich but he helps. Only cyberspace makes it all happen. Only here can we get the news without journalism majors reporting what they can understand. Only here can we get professional opinion that is more than a journalism major can comprehend.
And we are not limited to the half hour format of what is hottest, such as the Bobbit or OJ trials, nor are we limited to newspaper advertising sales to cover the amount of news that can be printed. Our tendency is to beat a horse to death but, in my never humble opinion, that is better than passing up a good news story on Friday because there has to be a Person of the Week segment. (What if there were no person this week?)
And as a minimum we are going to bring about the complete reorganization of the FBI and the BATF. Already we have the number two many at the FBI under suspension and three of his henchmen. As ABC declines to cover the threats of wrongdoing by Justice in the Good Old Boys party, it is all over the networks. There is no place for these people to hide any longer.
We just keep doing as we have been doing and we have the government under control. It may have taken time. It will take less time next time. The government still does not understand what is going on. We will continue to show them.
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