tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21760390.post8951891363545707245..comments2024-02-28T02:36:09.368-08:00Comments on The dotFuture Manifesto: Internet Crime, Web Services, Philosophy: Does Giuliani's cyberwar make any sense?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21760390.post-51874947942977482222008-01-03T05:29:00.000-08:002008-01-03T05:29:00.000-08:00I have visited your site and its a useful resource...I have visited your site and its a useful resource. We need a similar one on Bin-Laden and Al-Zawahiri, too much nonsense is talked about fighting terrorism here in the US. The fact is that the West German police had Baader, Ensslin and Meinhof under arrest within two years of their principal terror campaign using police work. Meanwhile the UK authorities trying to suppress 'loyalist' terrorism in Northern Ireland create and fuel the provisional IRA response. <BR/><BR/>It is pretty odd that despite his support for the IRA, presumably in response to the 'illegitimacy' of British government tactics is such an advocate for use of the same failed tactics against Al Qaeda. The IRA was eventually halted through police work and cutting off the money supply, internment and torture only made things worse.<BR/><BR/>It might be an exageration to say that the RAF spent more time on robing banks than on political thinking, but not by much and particularly not when they are getting started. The main point I was making here was that without the money from the bank robberies the RAF would have been just another group of speculators on the extreme left. Before the jailbreak Baader's idea of praxis was firebombing a department store and Meinhoff's was getting a parking ticket.<BR/><BR/>After the jailbreak and returning from Jordan they robbed four banks, lost half the gang in a shootout with the police, robbed more banks and only then got round to telling Meinhof to whip up a manifesto. Baader and Ensslin have better things to do.<BR/><BR/>I tend to view the political screeds of such groups to be more in the nature of rationalization and self-justification than the result of actual political thought. As you put it yourself 'making sure their war was justified'. I have not done it yet but I would be interested to see a graph of the number of political communiques released against the mounting body count. I will bet there is a strong correlation - up to the point where the first generation gets arrested and then what else are they going to do but spend their days writing political screeds?PHBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10772216888166343026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21760390.post-2692231846834437362008-01-02T18:10:00.000-08:002008-01-02T18:10:00.000-08:00I agree with the overall sentiment of your article...I agree with the overall sentiment of your article; let's face it, not a whole lot of what Rudy says seems to make much sense.<BR/><BR/>I do take exception with one statement: "The Baader-Meinhof gang spent far more time robbing banks than thinking about politics." I know a bit about the group (you can see my site at www.baader-meinhof.com) and if there is one thing that I can assure you that this particular failed revolutionary terrorist group did, it was think, live, and breath politics. Try wading through the hundreds of communiques, internal dialogues, etc that they released during their era (I have... and it has just about sucked everything out of me) and you'll quickly realize how much energy they put into making sure that their war was justified "politically". If you've ever seen a photograph of Andreas Baader's prison cell after he killed himself, you'll see bookshelves teeming with hundreds of the densest political tracts imaginable.<BR/><BR/>In fact their bank robberies AND their communiques were straight from the their revolutionary field manual: Carlos Marighella's minimanual of the urban guerrilla. To them, robbing banks was all part of their political argument.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05793807651138991704noreply@blogger.com