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Then read his website: http://www.toad.com/gnu/
He's unable to travel because he refuses to present a government-approved ID
John Gimore: "In my spare time I practice Iyengar Yoga, read, listen to music....travel...., program, and socialize."

John Gilmore's homepage.

Disarming the United States. The Bush Administration should be forced by United Nations resolutions to surrender its "weapons of mass destruction" or face the consequences. "Any government that repeatedly threatens and attacks other soveriegn countries without provocation, that holds massive stocks of nuclear and conventional weapons, that tortures its own citizens and those of other countries, that refuses to follow its own constitution and laws as well as international treaties which it co-created and signed, that holds 500,000 political prisoners in its jails, that imprisons the largest number and percentage of its people in the world... Any such government needs to immediately disarm and submit to a regime change, or face the consequences from the international community." See also the Pictures from the Iraq war that the US tried to censor so that Americans could not see them.

For someone who likes to remain "isolated from government view", Gilmore charts his achievements and anything else he thinks you want to know about him and his issues on [self]privacy". You only have to follow the yellow brick road on his self promoting website. ;)

Gilmore is full of it on "Disarming the United States", of course.

However, we don't do "secret laws" here on Free Republic. Actually, I kind of like "Less Laws", too. I don't like the fact that there's people working long days to implement news laws - and I'm paying them to do it.

Greetings. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I support his efforts to protect privacy. Doesn't mean I buy into his entire agenda. I've had a few confersations with him and he's pretty admanant about reigning back big brother.

That's one reason why toad.com hosted the cypherpunks mailing list for several years, and an anonymous remailer. Cyperpunks is a distributed mailing list now to keep there from being a single point of failure on it, but many of the old-timers on the list still refer to the list address as cypherpunks@toad.com. I learned a lot about encryption on that list, and had some interesting political discussions, but some positions some folks take are definitely not things I'd support.

OTOH, I found Assasination Politics to be intreging on it's technical merits, as well as policy implications.