----- Original Message -----
From: "John Perry Barlow" <barlow@...>
To: "John Perry Barlow" <barlow@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:38 PM
Subject: BarlowFriendz 7.4: Remember The Reichstag...


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> <A continuing series of occasional outbursts to about 929 of my
> dearest friends. Please let me know if you wish to be removed from
> this list. But you'll miss some great parties if you do...
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> Also, if this broadcast feels as spammish to you as it obviously is,
> I hope you remember that individual responses generally elicit
> personal replies. And whether or not I have time to write back, I
> always read your replies with careful delight.>
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> 1. I'm OK, Leah's OK, I Hope You're OK...
> 2. Prepare for the Coming Police State!
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> DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME...
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> I've received enough e-mail and phone calls this morning to indicate
> that many of you are concerned for my safety, knowing that I have an
> apartment within the debris range of the fallen towers.
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> In fact, I'm in halcyon Seattle, where nothin' could be finer. Rarely
> have I seen a nicer day here.
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> Dear daughter Leah, on the other hand, *is* in Lower Manhattan, where
> she is a freshman at NYU. After several stabs, I was able to get
> through to her this morning, finding her unharmed and calm. She is
> going to lay low in her dorm today and likely attempt to volunteer
> for relief efforts tomorrow.
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> I've told her for years that is no population on earth more adaptable
> to emergency than the hyper-witted citizens of Manhattan. She reports
> that there is plenty of evidence to support this view surrounding her
> this morning. The Gothamites are rising to the occasion.
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> There are a number of you who work in the World Trade Center and its
> immediate vicinity. Rather than tie up telco bandwidth better devoted
> to those who really need it, I won't try to call you, but I would
> appreciate a response to this message assuring me of your safety.
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> I will rest easier knowing you're not forever at rest...
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> *DO* WORRY ABOUT US. AND, MORE TO THE POINT, U.S.
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> As most of you know, I believe that the United States has gradually,
> subtly, invisibly to most of us, become a police state over the last
> 30 years.
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> This morning's events are roughly equivalent to the Reichstag fire
> that provided the social opportunity for the Nazi take-over of
> Germany.
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> I am *not* suggesting that, like the Nazis, the authoritarian forces
> in America actually had a direct role in perpetrating this
> mind-blistering tragedy. (Though their indirect role deserves a much
> longer discussion.)
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> Nevertheless, nothing could serve those who believe that American
> "safety" is more important than American liberty better than
> something like this. Control freaks will dine on this day for the
> rest of our lives.
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> Within a few hours, we will see beginning the most vigorous efforts
> to end what remains of freedom in America. Those of who are willing
> to sacrifice a little - largely illusory - safety in order to
> maintain our faith in the original ideals of America will have to
> fight for those ideals just as vigorously.
>
> I beg you to begin NOW to do whatever you can - whether writing your
> public officials, joining the ACLU or EFF, taking to the streets, or
> living visibly free and fearless lives - to prevent the spasm of
> control mania from destroying the dreams that far more have died for
> over the last two hundred twenty five years than died this morning.
>
> Don't let the terrorists or (their natural allies) the fascists win.
> Remember that the goal of terrorism is to create increasingly
> paralytic totalitarianism in the government it attacks. Don't give
> them the satisfaction.
>
> Fear nothing. Live free.
>
> And, please, let us try to forgive those who have committed these
> appalling crimes. If we hate them, we will become them.
>
> May God - or Whatever you want to call It - bless us all. We'll need it.
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>
> Barlow
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> --
> John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident
> Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Berkman Fellow, Harvard Law School
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> The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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> -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt