Subject: "The American Empire On Its Deathbed." (long)

From: "St. Marc the Perpetually Amused" <disciple@templeoferis.org>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2001 5:20 PM
Message-ID: <U0hI7.38863$S4.3448302@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

Every once in a while I read the survivalist newsgroups to see what they're
up to. It's a wonderful blend of practical advice and conspiracy theories.
(It's sorta like alt.slack, but with fewer alien sex gods.) I ran across
this post today and I thought it was sort of interesting. (I especially
liked the part that goes "Totalitarians in control wouldn't be intimidated
by a little anthrax spread around Washington DC. Totalitarians would stand
and fight. The Congress did not stand and fight. They RAN, and they ran like
scalded dogs.") If anybody cares to discuss it, lets.

On 12 Nov 2001 18:06:25 GMT, "Ray Keller" <raykeller@theriver.com>
wrote:

The American Empire On Its Deathbed
by Liz Michael - www.lizmichael.com
Released November 5, 2001 for immediate release

"...and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the
beast? who is able to make war with him?" ---- Revelation 13:4

There is a conspiracy theory, which has made the rounds in many
circles for many years, that there are forces within the US government
that are engineering events such as the 9-11 incident, the Oklahoma
City bombing, and so forth, to implement fhis great "Master Plan" to
implement a totalitarian government. This government is part and
parcel of a much larger effort by the New World Order, the United
Nations, the Illuminati, the Queen of England in league with the
Vatican, the multinational corporations, or whomever the scapegoat of
the day or the movement, is. Most of the conspiracy theorists present
this as if it is a fait accompli which cannot be undone. For all
intents and purposes, these people WORSHIP this coming leviathan which
they see as unconquerable.

The truth may actually prove a lot more discomfiting for a lot more
people when it materializes.

The truth is that the American government is in near collapse. The
truth is that the recent attacks on the United States are NOT the
result of the Bush family conspiring with the Clintons and other state
liberals to coalesce power. The truth is likely that outside powers,
far from trying to CREATE a totalitarian USA, are trying to remove the
USA from its current position as world military and economic
superpower, and would attempt to DESTROY any totalitarian USA, just
like the Soviet Union collapsed and Nazi Germany was disassembled.

The powers that be have lost control

All the various moves you are seeing now are not the moves of someone
"in control". They are the moves of a group of people that have
suddenly discovered they have lost control. And are desperately trying
to get it back.

Totalitarians in control wouldn't be intimidated by a little anthrax
spread around Washington DC. Totalitarians would stand and fight. The
Congress did not stand and fight. They RAN, and they ran like scalded
dogs. The rest of the government also ran. These are the actions, not
of people in control of a master plan, but of people in panic: people
who have suddenly discovered they DON'T control what's going on.

Is the CIA having been hit with anthrax a sign of control? Let me
repeat this: the terrorizers of the U.S. government HIT the Central
Intelligence Agency. This is the agency that is supposed to know about
these things before they happen. This is also the agency that was told
by several sources that the 9-11 event was imminent, but either
ignored the threat, or could not react to it in time. Do you REALLY
THINK they LET themselves be hit?

Gray Davis, in an incredible moment of grandstanding, demonstrated
more of this lack of control, by announcing a terrorist threat....but
not quite a verified one. Just a rumor. Something even the FBI is now
disavowing. So now we have all the king's men scrambling around trying
to catch...they have no idea what...trying to stop.....they have no
idea who. In other words, they are stumped. They're snookered. They're
outsmarted.

A Sacramento journalist was taken into custody by police at Los
Angeles International Airport and was forced to destroy photos he had
been taking by an over-zealous National Guardsman. Totalitarians are
not usually afraid to have their pictures taken. Recently, a key
member of the Green Party was denied entry onto an aircraft, because
she was a member of the Green Party attending a peace conference. They
have tried to blame the anthrax incidents on everyone from Al-Qaeda,
to Iraq, to racist domestic militias, to libertarian militias, to
pagans: and its only a matter of time before they try and blame it on
leftist activists, unions, and the religious right, or as Clinton did
with the Murrah Building bombing, "right wing radical talk show
hosts".

These people are not only afraid of foreign terrorists. These people
are afraid of you and me. They are afraid of the press. They are
afraid of the political activists. They are afraid of the pacifists.
They are afraid of their own shadows. They are not in control of
anything.

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping?

Now, this "War On Terror" could have gone a different way. After
September 11th, there could have been a call for the militia, which is
the whole people, and not a handful of backwoods rednecks as is the
romantic ideal (not that there's anything WRONG with being a backwoods
redneck), a call for the whole people to be on alert, to become armed,
to learn self-defense and battle techniques, and to train to do things
like protect the bridges, the nuclear plants, the borders, the planes.
That did not happen. We could have been told to prepare shelters
against nuclear or biological attack. We could have been told to stock
up on supplies, on first aid kits, and train in CPR and medical rescue
techniques. To buy guns. To shore up our vehicles for potential
emergency use or flight.

Instead, what did Rudy Giuliani ask us to do to save New York? What
did George W. Bush ask us to do to save the country.

They asked us to shop.

Rudy asked us to "come see a Broadway show" even though we couldn't
drive into the city without a second passenger, and had to go through
roadblocks and search points more dense than those at the Mexican
border.

The President asked us to fly in planes that he does not fly in,
because they are not safe enough for him to do so. Instead of asking
us to save, invest, stock up on supplies, he wants us to continue
engaging in pointless consumption and satisfying our vanities. Excuse
me, Mr. President, but didn't you just say we're at WAR? Didn't you
just appoint a new office of Homeland Security because you knew we
were going to be under imminent attack by Al-Qaeda agents in our own
country? Yet we're supposed to go on as if 9-11 never happened? We're
supposed to go shopping?

Wartime is a time when a little austerity is in order. The only people
during war who would spend like there's no tomorrow are people who
expect to die soon. If the American economy is dependent on such
frivolous spending, then it basically is already screwed.

Anti-terrorism bills the death warrant of America as a world power

The Congress of the United States issued a series of bills in an
attempt to regain control, the most threatening of which is the one
using the acronym of the PATRIOT Act. The legislation is some of the
most liberty-infringing legislation that has been passed in many a
decade. President George W. Bush dutifully signed them all without so
much as a whimper: in fact, he was glad to do so. At that point,
whether he realizes it or not, George W. Bush signed the death warrant
of the American Empire.

It is the death warrant of the American Empire for several reasons.
First of all, it has coalesced a small but important coalition, on the
left, the right and the center, AGAINST the United States government.
And that coalition just happens to be the people who are most
concerned about liberty and freedom. The President and the Congress
has basically just told every person concerned about liberty and
freedom in America, from the ACLU activist and the WTO-NAFTA
protester, to the religious conservative and the libertarian free
marketer, to go to hell. In other words, they essentially told the
real American patriots that they can bug off. Liberty and freedom is
not important. Security is the prime directive. Sit down, shut up,
wave your flag and do as you are told.

They are living the warning of Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade
liberty for security deserve neither. The tragedy for them is, that
government will be a bigger target than ever now.

The "War On Terror" will be lost

The second reason it is the death warrant to the Empire is that it
ensures a loss in the War on Terror. Insures a loss? Yep. Why? How?

It doesn't matter how well American troops do overseas. It doesn't
matter if they kill Osama bin Laden. It doesn't matter how many
Al-Qaeda agents they destroy abroad. The real measure of the success
or failure of the War on Terror will be to what extent the American
mainland will still be standing after all is said and done.

That brings me to the third reason the American Empire is about to
die. Immigration policy. Out of the hundreds of new policies
implemented in the last few months to ensure the safety of everyone,
the most obvious one that would have actually done some good would
have been to close the borders and revoke the visas and green cards of
everyone having come into this country from a Muslim country. That one
act would have prevented more terrorists from coming in, and it would
have provided a mechanism for deporting 95% of potential terrorists
still in this country.

Instead, we invite Syrians in to take more flying lessons and are
going to grant Taliban-sympathetic Pakistanis carte blanche to come
here and engage terror.

Because this third reason has barely been addressed, the agents who
will continue to physically destroy America in future months and
years, as well as kill millions, are already here, and will continue
to be here. Eventually they will perform their task. These terrorists
will eventually devastate the American mainland. They will do it
regardless of how successful we are in prosecuting the war abroad. In
fact, it is entirely possible that the more we punish Al-Qaeda abroad,
the more likely the terrorists here will devastate us.

The American people will never forgive the government and the agencies
that are going to allow this to happen. They are going to turn on them
and destroy whatever is left of them that Al-Qaeda has not already
destroyed by then. Being Democrat or Republican is not going to matter
because both of them let it happen, and both of them will rightly
share the guilt.

FBI shows more evidence of having lost control

Now, occasionally, the king's men have caught some of these people.
For example, the Millennium Bomb plot was foiled. But they cannot
catch them all. Not in time. It took them seventeen years to catch the
last big mail terrorist, the Unabomber, and he was one guy living in a
shack. They got lucky when a no license plate vehicle turned up
Timothy McVeigh: but they still haven't caught most of McVeigh's
coconspirators. They have one thousand foreigners in jail over the
9-11 incident: the only ones who have been charged have been charged
with extremely Mickey Mouse stuff like "lying about having met" one of
the terrorists, or lying on an application for something or another.
This indicates to me that law enforcement doesn't have anything
approaching a clue on this. The arrest of a thousand people on nothing
is another sign of desperation, and a sure sign of having lost
control: and it is a sign of tyranny that many of us refuse to
tolerate in what is supposed to be a free country.

Governments are not perpetual and eternal. I know to many who work for
government or depend upon government that they seem so. Many
governments and many leaders talk as if they are everlasting. Hitler
talked about a "thousand year Reich" which ultimately lasted only 12.
The government of one of the mightiest powers of the 20th century, the
Soviet Union, failed to survive to see the 21st.

Whether the United States survives as an entity, whether we see it
resurrected under the original intent of the founders, whether we see
a fragmentation into several states and regions, whether we see a
reassertion of former nations such as the Confederate States of
America or the Indian nations, I do not know. But of one thing I am
sure: the Imperial World Superpower of the United States is finished.
It could survive perhaps slightly beyond the Bush Presidency, but
probably not long after that.

I just pray that most of the American people are not killed along with
their government.

What can we do?

Many of you are violently disagreeing with what I just wrote. Many
others are asking, "well, what then?" If you are not asking it now,
you surely will in the future as more terrorist incidents devastate
America.

You have to come to the understand that in its essence, America is not
its government. America is not its flag. America is a concept, a
concept that enshrines liberty and freedom. America is also a people.
There are many things which you can do to preserve the America that
deserves preservation.

1. Make very huge mental adjustments

It doesn't matter what your politics are. It doesn't matter what your
religion is. Whatever they are you need to take them seriously. The
primary enemy.... we have secondary enemies, for certain, and I will
offer suspects, but the primary enemy is Al-Qaeda. Most of America is
centered on the concept of money. It may shock you to hear this free
market capitalist tell you to not obsess over money.

Your enemy carries with him a religious fervor which will cause him to
do many things to ruin you. And while I do not believe Allah trumps
Yaheveh, and do not know if he trumps any other gods or not, you had
better believe that Allah trumps Mammon. In this environment, if your
god is Mammon, you are going to lose You may very well sell your enemy
the rope with which he hangs you. He did it on 9-11.

Most people base their politics on the assumption that the government
will always be here. I submit to you that if you really care about
your issue concerns, you prepare for the day when the government
cannot or will not enforce them. Develop ways of caring for the
environment which DON'T involve enforcement by a government thug.
Develop a safety net which DOESN'T depend on the government. Develop
crime fighting methods that DON'T depend on the king's men being there
to do it for you. Develop disaster and rescue efforts that assume the
government cannot act, and that you will have to do it yourself. When
all hell breaks loose, not only will FEMA NOT be a tyrannical agency
set to take away all your rights, as is the popular myth circulating
in patriot circles - FEMA will likely not be there AT ALL.

The government will soon NOT be there to help. They likely won't be
there at all. And you had better be ready for that.

2. Civil Defense

Become the militia, and organize neighborhood defense forces. Buy
guns. Stock up on food, water, first aid, and survival supplies, and
construct viable shelters. Develop plans for defending vital services
such as hospitals, power plants, water resources, and food. Develop
evacuation plans and have them ready to go at a moments notice.
Determine what your "bug out" territories are. Learn to fight. Get in
shape. Stay healthy and learn about self medicine, for when the
doctors won't be available.

This is the fatal mistake that both George W. Bush and his Democratic
loyal opposition made: they failed to call up and muster civilian
defense. There are cities which are going to be vaporized because of
that fatal mistake. There are environmental resources that are going
to be devastated because of that fatal mistake. You and your
community, however, don't have to follow them all over a cliff.

Don't like guns? Believe in gun control? Get over it. We're at war and
you're a target. In war, soldiers have guns, and you are one, like it
or not. Learn how to defend yourself and your family from wild animals
and thugs or watch them become worm food. You're a pacifist? Al-Qaeda
isn't honoring the wishes of conscientious objectors today, sorry.

3. Resist the tyranny

Many of you will get this one right away. Resist the tyranny. Live as
a free person. You don't have to be told. You easily see that the only
way to make the tyranny ultimately go away is to refuse to participate
in it.

Others of you will ask, but wouldn't this be "unpatriotic"?

Have you ever heard of the principle of "tough love". Basically,
sometimes you have to let your children, or your friend, go, and let
them suffer the consequences of their actions, in order to save them.
Because enabling them to continue taking the wrong path will only in
the long run get them, and maybe you, killed. Study any twelve step
program for validation of this.

This is what has to be done with the federal government, and many of
the state and local governments. They are our children. We created
them. But they are errant children. They are children who have become
thugs and terrorists. They're not REALLY the enemy. But in order to
rescue them, we may have to treat them like the enemy. We may even
have to kill them, as per the Toraic proscription as to excessively
errant children. We may have to shun them, as per the New Testament
proscription as to excessively errant and unrepentant church members.

Resisting the tyranny means many things. It means not paying taxes. It
means trimming your reliance on the state, and upon its identity
documents, as much as you can practically get away with. It means
using jury nullification to disrupt their trials. It means using every
trick you can think of to disrupt their affairs.

Don't talk to the FBI. If you talk to the FBI, it gives them the
chance of prosecuting you because they think you lied to them. So just
don't talk to them. There are a thousand people in federal detention
centers as we speak, NONE of them having been charged with any crime
of any consequence. It can happen to you, too. Don't talk to them.
Tell them to go to hell.

Do you think that is treasonous talk? Well, the greatest President we
ever had, one Thomas Jefferson, said that when the government fears
the people, there is liberty. But when the people fear the government,
there is tyranny. So immediately, I say to you now. Stop fearing the
government. Make them fear you. Make them mortified to come into your
neighborhood, terrified to approach your door and knock on it,
frightened to stop your car and ask for your license.

Remember that these civil liberties violations started with the
government. The plans they have to invade our privacy, take our
property, deprive us of liberty and freedom of travel, were initiated
BY the government, not by freedom lovers. THEY started it. If we love
freedom and liberty, we must fight for it. We must fight ALL tyranny,
whether it comes from Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, or whether it
comes from agents of our own government.

Many of you have varied opinions on George W. Bush, ranging from the
"Antichrist" to the best President we could have at a time like this.
I don't think President Bush is a BAD man. But I do think he has made
a fatal mistake. A mistake which he could undo tomorrow by executive
order: but I don't see it happening. Having done this, he has failed
to do his constitutional duty, and does not deserve support for his
current domestic policy. And don't you dare gloat, Tom Daschle. Mr.
Bush hasn't done anything wrong that you haven't also done, and nearly
every member of Congress, Democrat and Republican, with you.

And definitely, don't say "I told you so", Mr. Gore. Most of our
present dilemma happened because of events set in motion on your watch
and due to your incompetence and your tolerance of a corrupt
administration.

4. Stand for public office

Every single freedom loving patriot needs to stand for public office
now. They need to stand in every party: Democrat and Republican,
Libertarian and Green, Reform and Constitutionalist. There are really
just two parties now: Patriots and Traitors. Washington DC, and most
state governments, are "one party" operations and it is the wrong
party. There are no more chances to save the United States of America
by the electoral process. This is the last chance. If you all don't
stand now, there will be no more chances. If you fail to choose to
work with ballots now, you guarantee you will have to work with
bullets later. You may have to anyway: but do you really want to see
an American Civil War?

5. Homeschool your kids

I don't say this lightly. The public school systems in most
communities are largely beyond hope. They are not teaching values.
They are teaching sheepery, to go along to get along. They are
literally terrorizing kids and parents alike with "zero tolerance"
tyranny over guns, drugs, t-shirts, and free thought. Screw them.
Whatever your values are, now is the time to teach them to your
children. I can assure you they will not learn them in public school.
They will also not learn "how" to think in public school, as opposed
to what to think.

Also, public schools are going to become a very dangerous place. Osama
bin Laden has already told us that he will attack our children. What
better way to attack our children than at school, all of which have
been declared "arms-free zone" enforced by such zero tolerance tyranny
that you cannot even point a finger in a mock game of cops and robber
without suffering persecution. Such schools have in effect sent an
engraved invitation to Al-Qaeda terrorists which says: HIT ME, OUR
KIDS AREN'T PROTECTED BY ANYONE. The law of the jungle will assert
itself here. They will attack our schools. They will kill our
children, just as sure as any wilderness predator goes after the
young, the weak, and the least defended.

You think they won't? Then you must have forgotten that the Ryder
truck of Timothy McVeigh was parked right below a day care center,
which McVeigh knew existed.

6. Reorient your economy

The reason this country is in as much economic jeopardy as we are in
is that we have forsaken industrial jobs and sent them overseas, and
we have replaced them with Pizza Hut Delivery and a lot of service
sector jobs.

I want to suggest that now is the time for everyone to tighten their
belts. Now is the time to make economic purchasing decisions based on
needs and not on wants. And we should all orient our economies and our
jobs and businesses to things which people are going to need
regardless of the economy. What would those be? Food. Shelter. Basic
clothing. Medical supplies. Basic transportation. Information.
Communications. Energy. Defense. Waste disposal. Less emphasis should
be put on "toys" and more emphasis on utility: in other words, if
you're going to dabble in toys, make them toys relevant for survival.
Also more emphasis needs to be placed on things which can be recycled
and refurbished, and less on "throw away" stuff.

Moreover, we need to strengthen our mutual survivability by getting as
many of those things locally as we possibly can.

Also, if you are investors, you need to reorient your investments so
that they do two things. Number one, so they are not dependent on the
US dollar, and two, so they are reflective of material and necessity
industries and not pleasure and service industries, because the
material and necessity industries are more likely to survive both a
catastrophic series of events and the collapse of the dollar.

Additionally, get mobile. Mobility may be the key to survival. If
you're into cars, I would suggest classic cars as a hobby. Why? In the
event of a nuclear-generated electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) wiping out
electrical devices in an area, classic cars which use an older
technology may be at a premium, and you may be able to escape in that
old clunker when the new stuff doesn't work any more.

Final thoughts

The odds are very great that we are fighting a lot more people than
Al-Qaeda. Very likely, Saddam Hussein is a root cause of this and
future violence. For those of you who believe in Biblical prophecies,
Hussein considers himself a modern day "Nebuchadnezzar, King of
Babylon". You ought to make yourself familiar with what is prophesied
to be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, or
the Chaldeans, all which could correspond to modern day Iraq.

Moreover, I also pose a question: who benefits from our destruction?
Who gains from our removal as an economic and military superpower.
Certainly usual suspects like China and Russia might. Islamic
fundamentalism could well spread, with nuclear weapons falling into
the hands of people willing to declare Jihad against all non-Muslims,
surely a dangerous peril to the world. As well though, the biggest
entity to gain from an American dissolution is the European Union, who
would probably be propelled into the position of "economic savior" of
the world economy, with the Euro, now a useless currency unit,
possibly propelled into worldwide prominence.

Some points to cover in case people are mad at me. There is nothing
wrong with waving the flag or displaying it. There is nothing wrong
with writing "God Bless America" and singing patriotic songs, even in
a school. What I am saying is, though, that it is insufficient. Real
patriotism is not emotion. Real patriotism is real action to protect
the homefront. Writing "God Bless America" on your window is not going
to deter an Al-Qaeda attack. Only preparation and making yourself a
"hard target" will dissuade them.

Real patriotism also does not compromise with tyranny. Real patriotism
does not accept the tyranny of the federal government to fight the
tyranny of Al-Qaeda. Real patriotism fights both. As Mr. Bush stated,
freedom itself was attacked. And freedom will be defended. From all
enemies, foreign and domestic. And if the federal government, or any
other government, is found to be attacking freedom and liberty, for
whatever reason, they not only SHALL be treated just as we would treat
Al-Qaeda terrorists, but they SHOULD be treated the same. If Mr. Bush
and his supporters have any problems with this, they should realize
that the President set these parameters himself. He did not say
America was attacked and shall be defended. He didn't say the federal
government was attacked. He said "freedom itself" was attacked. We are
fighting FOR freedom, and if that places us as an enemy of the federal
government or any other government, then so be it.

For those of you who prefer anything else to freedom itself, be it
security, be it commerce, be it party loyalty, whatever it is, the
words of Samuel Adams wonderfully express my sentiment:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude
better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands
which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

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Subject: Re: "The American Empire On Its Deathbed." (long)
From: slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2001 2:03 PM

Listen to the burbling, as he rises to the bait...

Given the events of the past two months or so, I find myself in
agreement with many of the salient points promulgated by both left-
and right-wing whackos. It seems fairly obvious enough that we are in
the midst of a sizable paradigm shift, but in such situations it may
be difficult to see the forest for the trees.

I certainly agree with the points made about the ineptitude being
displayed by the gub'mint. It seems to me that the criteria for the
selection of gub'mental "leadership" in this country has more to do
with the perceived business acumen and ability to turn a buck of the
candidate than the presence of any real qualities of leadership. At
least, that's the only reason I can think that a significant minority
of voters made their mark for an obviously incompetent, semi-literate
spoiled rich dipshit like Dubya. I suppose that many figured that the
policies he advocated would ultimately be more profitable to them
personally, and to hell with the fact that he didn't seem capable of
leading the night-shift crew at Wendy's.

Of course, this is just one symptom of the "corporatization" of the
country. Another symptom is that most Americans have been converted
from "citizens" to "consumers," and little more. As long as the price
of consumer goods is relatively low, credit easily available, and the
Dow-Jones average seems okay, there's nothing for them to worry about.
At least, this is my perception of many of my friends and co-workers
who apparently have NO CLUE about the recent gutting of the Bill of
Rights, yet can recite in great detail what any given celeb was
wearing at the Emmy awards. I'm afraid I have trouble agreeing with
this author's implicit faith in the ability of the American people to
rise to the occaision in a time of major crisis. The Con has
succeeded too well in completely cowing a vast majority of Normals
into just submissively "taking it" rather than question the
assumptions behind this War on Terrorism.

Interesting is the premise that the powers that be are on the brink of
becoming the powers that were. The only problem is that they are not
going to give it up without a major struggle, and that the regular
schlubs like you and me are going to be the ones that get the stinky
end of the stick when that struggle breaks out into the open. The
author sez that totalitarians don't do this, and totalitarians don't
do that, but WANNABE totalitarians would sure do stuff like persecute
photographers that photograph their persecution.

But she's also probably right in that these wannabe totalitarians have
already stepped on their own dicks, repeatedly. It seems to me that a
lot of the political leadership in the country has existed in an
informational vacuum that is decades old. While they have been
successful in controlling and manipulating the media to dance to their
tune, I think that people with access to other sources of information
(i.e. the almighty Internet) will eventually get the point that what's
going on the world and what WE'RE TOLD is going on are two different
things entirely. The old ways of propaganda and mass manipulation
will not work nearly as effectively as they used to.

Okay, shit, that's my overvalued two cents' worth on this interesting
bit o' ranting. Certainly, we're in for some big changes, and
definitely not for the better, at least in the short run. I still
believe, however, that in this current flux state we are in there is
an awesome potential for a long-term improvement in the way we live,
do business, and govern ourselves. However, given the preponderance
of flag-waving ignoramuses, I'm not really optimistic as to the
postive realization of this potential.

Somebody gimme a Sam Adams.

RLA

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