Posted on 04/24/2019 11:09:19 AM PDT by OddLane
When Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadoran embassy, he was carrying a copy of Gore Vidal’s History of the National Security State, which is smart advertising both for the book and for Assange’s worldview. It’s enough to make one wonder what book one would like to carry if and when one is arrested.
A few years before the 2006 launch of WikiLeaks, an activist hacker even stranger than Assange ran afoul of the U.S. government, in the paranoid environment just after 9/11. England’s Gary McKinnon hacked into NASA computers and took a look around, hoping to find evidence that the agency had been erasing UFOs from official photos. In retrospect, when he was arrested, he probably should’ve been carrying a book similar in spirit and title to the one Assange carried, such as historian Richard Dolan’s UFOs and the National Security State.
McKinnon claims he saw one photo of an object that did not look man-made, apparently in orbit around Earth, but he was found out before he could do any more snooping and his electronic connection to NASA broken. The panicked U.S. government made a great effort to have him extradited from England, calling his hacking one of the worst cybercrimes on record, but lawyers in England managed to keep him on their side of the Atlantic by claiming, implausibly but effectively, that he was too autistic to extradite humanely...
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Stormer’s “None Dare Call It Treason”
No Bail - Complete works of English Literature.
Bail - Book of the half breed’s pro-American quotes.
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