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Date:       10/15/91 9:23 AM
From:       >INTERNET:tibbetts@hsi.hsi.com
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 "Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer.  A bureau
 takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the 
 Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more
 of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled
 or excised.  Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true 
 parasitic organisms.  (A cooperative on the other hand CAN live
 without the state.  That is the road to follow.  The building
 up of independent units to meet the needs of people who
 participate in the functioning of the unit.  A bureau operates
 on the opposite principle of inventing needs to justify
 the existence.)  Bureaucracy is wrong as cancer, a turning away
 from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and
 differentiation and independent spontaneous action, to the
 complete parasitism of a virus."

    William S. Burroughs
 
    NAKED LUNCH
    Grove Press, 1959



  "I looked up the word politics in the dictionary
  and it's really a combination of two words --
  poly, which means many, and tic, which means
  blood suckers."

    Jay Leno


=============================================================================

 "The Demos staff [Demos' RELCOM (RELiable COMmunication)] had
 learned of the coup around 6 AM on the 19th, and immediately
 began sending political information to the Soviet Union and
 the outside world.  By 12:30 PM, Moscow time, I was reading a
 news release from the independent Soviet news agency Interfax.
 Although outlawed by the junta, news from Interfax, the Radio
 Moscow World Service, the Russian Information Agency,
 Northwest Information Agency (Leningrad), and Baltfax was
 disseminated by RELCOM throughout the coup attempt."

  "If these dogs win, for certain they'll throw us
  in prison -- we distributed the proclamation from
  Yeltsin and the Moscow and Leningrad Soviets throughout
  the entire Soviet Union, together with the 
  communiques from Interfax...Greetings from the underground."


    excerpts from an electronic article by:
    Larry Press  <LPRESS@ISI.EDU> entitled:
    A Computer Network for Democracy & Development

=============================================================================


The following are excerpts from correspondence
between Igor Shulz in Kaliningrad &
Todd Tibbetts in Wallingford
during the months of august and september, 1991.


Igor,

Tell me about the coup.  We get filtered info here.

-- tt  


Todd,

If today you could ask any Russian, "What do you think about IT."
9 out of ten will guess that "IT" means the coup attempt.  It was
a great eruption actually.  On the 19th of August, as usual,  I
turned on the radio.  (Radio "Liberty" financed by US Congress)
And then, in silence, my wife and her father and myself heard
ten minutes of news. Oh!  Mama Mia!  The great stupid country.  The
great stupid people!  Once more!  Vengry 1956, Hruchev 1964,
Praha 1968, Afganistan 1978, and...now, once more.  Poor old
foolish Gorbathev.
I said, "Piggs!"
My wife said, "Piggs!"
Her father said, "Fucked piggs!"  He is a pretty old man.
My daughter of 7-months said nothing.
I say, "May you find at least one good thing about the SYSTEM
in which people are not willing to be lucky, rich and happy,
but are willing to stay alive."

-- Igor


Igor,

How did the Idiocy of "The Persian Gulf War" look through your eyes?
Plus, we hear stories of the SU consumers having a tough time
getting goods for survival.  How are you doing?
Stop by Connecticut sometime and I'll get us a pizza.

-- tt


Todd,

About "Persian Gulf War":  It isn't most bloody war.  Besides, it's
too dangerous to permit a barbarian to have free actions.  War is awful,
but endless attempts to persuade made WW2 possible.  You must keep
in mind that the level of humanity in SU have been fallen constantly.
In the morning I saw in shop the battle for a milk packets.  It's
terrible.  People become very wicked.  My family spent 600-700r
for food in one month only.  (50-60% of people have year
income of 2000-5000r)  I can not imagine how they live on this money.
My year income is 12,000r.  I have not a phone, car, motorcycle...
but I have two bicycles.  I have TV set, which I bought 3 years ago
for 685r. (now it costs 4000r)  Only two of my friends have a VCR
(8000-12000r)  A second-hand car costs 20,000-150,000r.  Flat (2-3 rooms)
is cost 100,000.  You may see, that you not soon will have possibility
to treat me by a pizza.

-- Igor


Igor,

So, what does the SU really think of Americans?

-- tt


Todd,

Ten years ago this is what we believed:
Poor blacks are die off due to hungry and illness.  Most peoples are
living under bridges in cardboard box homes.  And same time
kapitalist piggs...and so on.  Brrr!  It's impossible to be living so.

Now:
Each American
 -is slim, slender, sunburned;
 -has car for himself, for wife, for babies and little car
  for his dog (of course each year cars change)
 -has his own home.  It isn't big - of 10-15 rooms, plus two
  toilet rooms and two bathrooms (for male and female)
 -are living on credit (with delayed payment)
 -has in his home:2-3 phone, 2-3 TV sets, VCR, computer, audio set
 -has shares of South Africa mines
 -has dinner in McDonald.  He have supper with his woman in
  restaurant on the Broadway.
 -has rest month on the Havay islands (or, in bad case, on
  Californy beaches)
 -is feeling disregard of everything from abroad (US is excellent      
  of all)
 -drinks often, a few, and never get drunk
 -nobody was hearing that American's are reading a book
 -loves American president, American hymn and American flag
  

-- Igor


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  "If we let people see that kind of thing, there
  would never again be any war."  A senior Pentagon
  official, quoted in The New Republic, on why U.S.
  military censors refused to release video footage
  of Iraqi soldiers being sliced in half by
  helicopter cannon fire. -- Newsweek


  Some Suess trivia from Alison Chaiken <alison@wsrcc.com>:
  
  The idea of "green eggs and ham" comes from the all-green
  breakfast served to freshmen at Dartmouth College,
  where Theodore Suess Geisel was a student.  Green milk,
  green oatmeal, green oj, green eggs, green ham...