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Volume 1 - Issue 1 - May 2015
G R A P H I C A L R E P R E S E N T A T I O N O F D E E P W E B
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MATT KIBBE: A Libertarian Manifesto PREMIERE ISSUE!
THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT: SMS for Tor PREMIERE ISSUE!
ERIC SNOWDEN: Hero or Criminal? I SAID, PREMIERE ISSUE!
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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ACQUIRING RELAY 3
Welcome... or not!
BLURBZ 4
A Libertarian Manifesto
QUOTABLE QUOTES 4
TODAY'S DEEP LINK 5
SMS For Tor
ARTICLE
Write a Guest Article 5
ARTICLE 6
WHO ? AM ? I ?
FEATURE 7
The Nolan Chart: A Short Introduction
CLASSIC TEXT FILE OF THE DAY 15
The Scariest Number in the World
FEATURE 18
Eric Snowden: Hero or Criminal?
ARTICLE 19
How To Be a Liber-TOR-ian
EXTRANEOUS
Traitors! The Electronic Frontier Foundation 19
DNS LOOKUP FAILED 20
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GLOSSARY \\\ 20
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LiberTORian Volume 1, Issue 1 is a publication of Synonymous 1.
Published May, 2015.
LiberTORian is released on an irregular basis.
N(c) 2015. Readers are freely welcome to copy and redistribute this text by
any means possible, preferable by photocopying.
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A C Q U I R I N G R E L A Y - By Synonymous 1 -
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WELCOME..... OR NOT! LiberTORian is dedicated primarily
with issues regarding the right to
LiberTORian is a freedom-minded privacy and expression with no fear
publication for deep web users. of reprimand from government,
You may have noticed something technologies that enable private
unusual about this: it's not a communications, and the libertarian
blog with video links everywhere. philosophy and issues in general.
It's not hosted on a web site with This magazine welcomes opposing
Javascript. The latter decision is points of view, even if the pub-
so that you have to worry about lishers disagree. This doesn't
potential Tor exploits. necessarily mean that what you say
will be shared on this forum. Free
In these days where Big Brother is speech doesn't mean I can't control
indeed watching us, privacy of over my publication. If you don't
electronic communications is like it, make your own magazine!
increasingly important to concerned
citizens everywhere. Curiously, That's the beauty of Libertarianism.
the hidden internet has its share In my excursions in the deep web, I
of resources for those who are came across much that I don't like.
interested in protecting their The vast majority, in fact. Some of
right to privacy, but it is buried it is downright repugnant. Well I'm
beneath a homogeneous mix of digital not going there and telling you to
destinations that have little to do adhere to what I want. I just went
with libertarian values. and did it myself. So can you!
LiberTORian magazine is designed to
be a destination for all types of One other thing: I was born in the
thought. Still, this may not be for United States. And while my govern-
everyone. You may not be interested ment has betrayed its founding
in LiberTORian if you: principles, it's those running it
and not the country itself, that I
o Wear Guy Fawkes masks lost respect for. And if you are
o Don't like Jews from outside the U.S.A., and hate
o Think Karl Marx is cool America or its troops, go tell
o Think that the Benghazi attack someone else. Whatever you think of
was a protest over a video America and the U.S. Military,
o Think that fire doesn't melt without them you would be less free,
steel, although that's how regardless of where you live.
steel is made
As a libertarian, I'm totally fine HAPPY READING!
if you read this and are from one of
the above groups. Just be cool and - Synonymous 1
respect opposing points of view. We
don't need another person who goes
around saying, �all information should
be free!!!!!!!!� and then turns around
and hacks web sites which convey
messages they don't like. What the
heck do you call that?
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B L U R B Z - By Synonymous 1 -
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A LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO there really isn't that much more to
it. Actually there is; it is truly
Matt Kibbe is a fellow libertarian the most diverse of all political
who wrote a book on the subject. or social vantage points. Yet its
Revolutionaries are always into core's essentially the same: �Don't
expressing themselves in some sort hurt people, and don't take their
mission statement. Well, in a time stuff.� Perhaps we could consider
where young people worldwide are Matt Kibbe's aforementioned text as
thrilled with surrendering their the official manifesto (for now, as
freedoms for government control, the it mentions some issues that are
very notion of individual liberty is current now but may not be in the
itself revolutionary! And so, in future) and the simple statement,
his new book, "Don't Hurt People and �Don't hurt people, and don't take
Don't Take Their Stuff�, Matt Kibbe their stuff,� as its concise form.
sums up everything succinctly in the
jacket text: So let's make this our motto.
I sure like it better than anything
"Don't Hurt People and Don't Take from John Lennon's �Imagine�. If
Their Stuff." Simple and we envision a world where no one
straightforward, that�s liberty in hurt anyone else and no one took
a nutshell�no assembly required. The property of others, wouldn't it
be a much better world?
And yet it seems like, more and
more, the decisions Washington You may say I'm just a dreamer
makes about what to do for us, or But if no one took my stuff
to us, or even against us, are And if no one hurt each other
having an increasingly adverse The world would be good enough!
impact on our lives. Young people
can�t find jobs, millions of (Oh yeah. I'm to the Beatles
Americans are losing the health what Charlie Hebdo is to Mohammed.)
care plans they were promised they
could keep, and every one of us is
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snooped on, conscripted, induced,
taxed, subsidized or otherwise Q U O T A B L E Q U O T E S
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decisions made in some secret
meeting or closed-door legislative
deal. �...Live and let live. Mostly
'live'�.
What gives?
-Archie Bunker,
Our government is out of control. �All In The Family�
But setting things right again
requires that you step up and take
your freedom back.
It's that simple. Matt Kibbe strikes
the heart of the matter, because
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T O D A Y 'S D E E P L I N K - By Synonymous 1 -
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SMS For Tor The site has been used to process
over 150 thousand messages, all of
URL: sms4tor3vcr2geip.onion them encrypted and away from the
prying eyes of the NSA.
Don't you have writing an email to
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�Just between me, you, and the
NSA...�? What business do they have WRITE A GUEST ARTICLE
sticking their noses in our private
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the government middleman with SMS
for Tor (A.K.A. SMS4Tor).
Do I have to write everything here?
What I like about SMS for Tor:
At least this time I do.
o For an onion link, it is easy
to memorize; it even has VCR Maybe next time, too.
in its name!
o The link works! You know how But one day, God-willing, I will
nice that is in the post-2013 have a TorMail or other private
deep web. Email address. When that time gets
o It's anonymous, encrypted, and here, you can write a guest article
out of the scope of the NSA. For LiberTORian. If I like it,
maybe it will wind up in a future
The SMS in SMS for Tor in this case issue! You can send a message via
stands for SECURE MESSAGING SYSTEM. SMS for Tor. The only problem is,
It proclaims itself as offering I don't have a way for you to reach
�Anonymous encrypted messages that me yet. So even if you encrypt a
self-destruct when read.� message, there's no way to get the
key URL to me... yet!
Sending a message is executed in 3
simple steps: So please read future issues... you
know I'll need your help! After
o Create a note; get an encrypt- all, it's obvious that it won't be
tion key URL long before everyone gets sick of
o Send the URL to a single whatever _I_ have to say!
person who can use it to read
your note In the meantime, write a guest
o The note will self-destruct the article and tuck it away safely
first time the key URL is until it can one day grow up and
accessed successfully. Grace the pages of LiberTORian.
It's quite simple, and therein lies UPDATE: I HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS
its elegance. Just make sure you do IN THE DEEP WEB NOW!
not lose the URL or hope that your
computer doesn't crash while your IT IS
message is being processed, or it synonymous1@ruggedinbox.com
will hang like an election 2000 chad
forever! Can't wait to hear from yuh!
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W H O ? A M ? I ? - By Synonymous 1 -
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I am a man. Or not. freedom, and that of my fellow
citizens, and my children after me
I could be anybody. Maybe I'm the and their fellow citizens.
boy who bags your groceries at the
supermarket. And I care enough that I will speak
up about it.
Or maybe I'm the guy you see at the
back of the bus, who's always And I am wary of the persecution of
talking out loud. citizens for criticizing Obama and
his policies and violations of the
Maybe I'm that lady who lives alone. Constitution. And I'm wise enough
to know that there will be direct
Except for the nine cats. attacks on me for doing so.
Maybe I'm someone you can see on TV, For there is one thing about me
like Dinesh D'Sousa. And this is that is certain. It has happened to
where I moonlight. me before. And many others like me.
We have been personally attacked for
Maybe I'm someone who looks innocent espousing the truth.
to you, but in secret, I do all
sorts of nasty things to animals to Our character can be assassinated.
satisfy some kind of sick pleasure. But it won't change the truth. And
it is futile to take one person out.
Maybe I'm a disgruntled politician
who has become disillusioned by the I am Synonymous 1. But somewhere
corruption in Washington. Out there is a Synonymous 2. And
Synonymous 3. And many more. Too
Maybe I'm working for President many to effectively assign numbers
Obama, but secretly documenting all to.
his corruption and criminal activity
from the inside, while I pretend to Notice the name �Synonymous�. We
be his ally. are not �anonymous�, the group. We
may agree in principle with them at
Maybe I'm someone you work with. times, but we abhor their methods.
Maybe I'm just a tired mom, who only We are not �Legion�, which is a name
wants the government to leave me for Satan. We're not here to
alone. And this is how I express destroy. We're here to expose the
myself. Light of Truth in dark places.
Maybe I'm all of these people, or There is no network. We are not a
some, or none. collection. We are individuals with
a common uniting cause: maximum
It doesn't matter, does it? liberty. We will defend it. We
will protect it. We will stand
Because I am not special. defiant when they attack us. And
we will prevail over the dark forces
I'm an ordinary person. That's it. that wish to snuff out basic
freedoms. That is who we are. That
And I care enough about my personal is who I am.
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Developed in the late 1960s, the Nolan test is also known as the �shortest
political test ever devised�. The test gauges one's political standing on the
Nolan Chart. It's uncanny in its accuracy, especially in the face of its
imitators. But what exactly the Nolan test's deal and how does it work?
LiberTORian's guide will answer all these questions and more.
By Synonymous 1
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The Nolan Chart was developed by David Nolan, a sociologist and libertarian.
He realized that the one-dimensional �Left-Right� scale was inadequate to paint
a political affiliation. There was too much diversity in value systems among
people in the left, right, or center. People of varied affiliations often have
shared areas of agreement. He sought to find a better classification system.
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David H. Nolan.
To compensate for the �left-right� system, David Nolan devised a two-dimensional
scale. The second dimension, �Up� and �Down�, were added to gauge a person's
views on individual liberty. Originally the Nolan chart was measured on a
square, but eventually it was turned 45 degrees to be seen as a diamond.
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The up-down scale represents indi- Constitutional liberal and
vidual liberty. The higher one Constitutional conservative. The
appears on the Nolan scale, the same applies for the other four
more they stand for individual areas. The image of the Nolan chart
liberty. The lower one appears on at the beginning of this article
the chart, the more the person portrays the author's position on
believes that government should the Nolan Chart. The chart itself
have control over individuals. provides the onlooker an instant
visual reference that describes a
David Nolan divided the Nolan chart person clearly.
into five regions. At the top is
�Libertarian�, who believe in
maximum liberty. David Nolan THE NOLAN TEST
himself was a libertarian. At the
very opposite end � the bottom � is To find one's position on the Nolan
�Statist�. Statists believe in Chart, one takes the 10-question
minimum personal liberty. The left Nolan Test. Marshall Fritz in the
and right sides are �Liberal� and late 1980s wrote the test, which he
�Conservative�, respectively. As billed, �World's smallest political
one can see on the chart, these two quiz�. Surprisingly, the ten
designations are somewhere in the questions are very accurate at
middle of the chart, for believers gauging one's political affiliation.
in either philosophy believe in a They were carefully chosen and were
form of government enforcement of subject to heavy testing, and there
their systems. Conservatives, for are often slight changes to
instance, believe in law and order, accommodate changing social issues.
and some government is required to
enforce it. Liberals believe in
higher taxation, and a large IMPOSTERS
bureaucracy is required to collect
and properly distribute it. A British imposter of the Nolan Test
is the Political Compass test. It
In the center is �moderate�, people attempts to be more comprehensive
whose views are one way on some by asking a larger range of questions
issues and different on others that on a wide variety of topics. But,
are similar. The system is highly arbitrary. The
system used to measure one's position
Each region is broad enough to hold on the chart is unknown, and the
a wide range of ideas. The liber- identities of the test's creators are
tarian area, for instance, has a unknown. Nor is it known what, if
pinnacle at the top, advocating no any, sociology or science credentials
government at all. These extreme they had, or if the test was tested.
libertarians are �anarchists�. As
one slides down the right slope, One thing is certain: Something is
they remain libertarian but do seriously flawed when a libertarian
believe in just enough government such as myself falls to the left of
to enforce the law. These are where the test's creators claim
referred to as �Constitutional Barack Obama stands! He's considered
Conservative�. The mirror image is right-wing in the test, which should
the �Constitutional Liberal�. They raise concerns outright. The problem
may embrace things like marriage with the Political Compass test is
for homosexuals and other social that it is based on the European
freedoms not accepted by conserva- system of left and right, which is
tives, but they both agree in the based on WWII era designations. In
principles of limited government. That time, there was no prevailing
libertarian thought, and what was
A wide range exists in between considered �left� and �right� were
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communism and fascism, respective- HOW YOU CAN TAKE THE NOLAN TEST
ly. Both of these systems were
forms of socialism, which are both Here are the ten questions of the
located as �statism� on the Nolan current Nolan Test. Answer each one
Chart. The whole political spec- honestly, and choose the closest
trum at the time could be answer if yours is not provided.
expressed on one quadrant of the Another thing you can do to prepare
Nolan Chart! is to cut a piece of graph paper into
a 20 by 20 square square.
Someone who later comes along like
Margaret Thatcher is an anomaly, QUESTION 1:
who would appear �moderate�, be- What is your view on speech, press,
cause her conservatism is far more assembly, internet and property
libertarian than socialism in any rights?
form, and libertarianism is rather
centrally located on the Nolan A. Government should not restrict
Chart. speech, press, internet, or media.
The rights of free citizens who
Another chart, that is similar to don't violate the rights of others
the Nolan test, but designed to must be respected and protected at
measure political coordinates of all times. Exercise of eminent
entire cultures, is the Inglehart- domain should be extremely limited
Welzel chart. This chart measures and its use avoided whenever
social scores as �traditional possible. Property rights and
values� versus �secular values�. private property should be
�traditional values� represents protected at all times.
individual freedom, while �secular
values� represents group freedoms B. Speech, press, internet and media
(at the expense of individual should be free except when it
freedoms.) The lower the up-down comes to protecting against
score, the more the society values terror and other threats against
individual freedoms. The left and public safety. Free speech zones
right are defined with �self- can be established to protect the
expression values� and �survival right of free speech while
values�, the latter being poorly ensuring security at public
defined. The chart itself may be events. Eminent domain should be
accurate, but the creators' place- maintained in practice, but it
ment of some nations is patently should not be available merely as
absurd: Canada charts higher than a means to enrich private develop-
the United States in self- ers via enforced land transfers.
expression values. Canada, a
nation that labels quoting the C. Speech, assembly, press, and
Bible in public a �hate crime�, and internet should be free except
whose government censors critics of when controversies such as global
Islamic terrorists? Australia is warming have already been settled
also strangely higher than America. and legitimate public policies
In both countries, self-expression would be undermined by its few
is not as free as it is in America, remaining detractors. Property
and one must wonder what criteria rights should be subject to the
was used, or if the authors of the needs of the government but
study used a dart board or pulled otherwise should be respected.
the stated positions out of their
rear ends. Some of the category D. Government should regulate speech,
groupings are unusual as well: press, media, Internet, and
respect for human life and blind property rights at its own
patriotism are together as discretion within reason as needed
�Traditional values�. to meet all of government's
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many obligations. sexual couples enjoy should also
be granted to gay couples.
QUESTION 2:
What is your view on guns? B. The government should pass laws
that favor whatever view the
A. The Second Amendment only applies majority of the population
to "militias" (such as the supports regarding homosexual
National Guard), and thus there is relationships, including
no specific protection afforded by homosexual marriage.
it to individuals. It should be up
to the government to decide the C. There should be no laws regarding
degree to which guns should be either heterosexual or homosexual
regulated for the public good. relationships among consenting
adults. Marriage of any kind is a
B. The Second Amendment to the private, contractual matter
Constitution clearly protects the between free, private individuals
right of all individuals to bear that should not be regulated.
arms. Government regulation of
guns is a violation of the Second D. Homosexuality is an abomination
Amendment. Having the right to and is banned by the Bible. Gay
self-defense is meaningless marriage should be illegal in all
without also having the means to cases.
defend yourself. An armed society
is a peaceful society, is the QUESTION 4:
best defense against criminals, What is your view on U.S. foreign
and serves as a deterrent against policy?
government tyranny. Gun control
has encouraged society to become A. A strong defense requires playing
lax and negligent in teaching and an active, interventionist role
training on the safe handling and in world affairs. As the last
maintenance of weapons by remaining superpower, we have a
individuals. moral duty to police the world at
any cost, or else we will surely
C. In general, I support the right pay the ultimate price. If we
to bear arms. However, it is don't militarily wipe out terror-
prudent to have government ism, the terrorists will wipe us
regulate arms via registration out. We must resolve to win no
requirements and other regu- matter how long it takes. It's
lations to ensure that mentally better to strike now than to pay
unstable people can't get guns later for our inaction.
and go on shooting rampages.
B. America should play an active
D. Gun control is essential and must role in world affairs. We need to
continually be made stronger if move toward more world government,
we're ever going to reduce and particularly when it comes to
hopefully eliminate gun violence issues such as global warming. The
in this country. war on terror should rely heavily
on diplomatic action. Military
QUESTION 3: intervention should be used when
What is your view on homosexual there is a threat to our
marriage? sovereignty, but this position
can and should be reversed when-
A. Gay rights should be supported by ever public opinion turns against
passing laws which protect gay it.
marriage, including civil statute
alternatives to gay marriage. All C. The role of our government, and
government benefits that hetero- the role of the United Nations,
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should be constantly expanded to A. The government has a duty to
help ensure that all of the world ensure that all individuals have
moves toward democracy. food, clothing, and shelter and
Complaints that government is too should also invest in private
big already are simply counter- industry whenever it deems such
productive and should be ignored. investment to be in the public
interest.
D. Peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations; B. End �corporate welfare�. No
entangling alliances with none, government handouts to business.
said Thomas Jefferson in his 1st
inaugural address. America's C. Government involvement is
interventionist policies over the necessary where private industry
past 100+ years have done little can't do the job all by itself.
to reduce international insta- As an example, agricultural sub-
bility, have led us into an sidies should continue to support
endless series of wars, and have small farmers.
cost us dearly in American lives
and money. The best defense of D. Corporate welfare should be
our borders is to defend our eliminated for big business, but
rights and liberty, not to sacri- the social safety net for indi-
fice them while constantly viduals should be retained.
growing our gigantic military,
led by a parade of Presidents who QUESTION 7:
repeatedly stick our nose into What is your view on trade and money?
other countries' affairs.
A. Trade that isn't fair isn't free.
QUESTION 5: Fair trade practices should be
What is your view on a national ID enforced as needed to ensure free
card? trade while maintaining reason-
ably open borders. The Fed's
A. There should be no national ID policies should be revised to
card. Period. The issuance of help the poor rather than the
required National IDs controlled rich.
via interconnected databases will
effectively end all privacy in B. The government should involve
this country. itself in the regulation of trade
as needed to ensure a healthy
B. We need a national ID card in economy at all times. The Federal
order to prevent events like the Reserve system has made our money
attacks of 9/11 but without supply the most stable in all
intruding too far into the history.
personal privacy of the innocent.
C. End government barriers to inter-
C. National ID cards should be per- national free trade. The
mitted but greatly restricted in regulation of trade tends enrich
scope because the potential for elected interest groups and
danger to personal liberty is industry captains at the expense
present. of everyone else. We must move
away from the inflationary
D. I'm not at all concerned about approach of the Federal Reserve
having a national ID card. Only by re-adopting a hard money
the guilty need to worry. approach and dissolving the
Federal Reserve system. Ever
QUESTION 6: wonder why prices of everything
What is your view on corporate (including real estate) keep going
welfare? up over time? The Federal Reserve
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system is the culprit. President Security becomes completely
Woodrow Wilson, who signed the insolvent.
Federal Reserve Act into law
regretted his decision 3 years QUESTION 9:
later saying, "I am a most What is your view on health care?
unhappy man. I have unwittingly
ruined my country." A. Government regulation of health
care is the main cause of the
D. Trade should be free in general, health care industry's upward
but it should be controlled as spiraling costs. The FDA, EPA,
needed to ensure that our borders Medicare, and a host of other
are protected against outside bureaucracies have created
threats. Monetary policy under mountains of regulations that have
the Fed has generally been good led to the deaths of thousands and
for our economy. Hard money can't even millions of people who were
keep up with a modern economy. denied needed treatments and
resources. The cost of creating
QUESTION 8: new treatments is also out of
What is your view on Social control because of this regu-
Security? lation. The only way to make
health care affordable again is
A. Social Security should be main- to get government out of the
tained and protected by the health care business.
government, although we do need
to offer individuals an alterna- B. Health care costs are spiraling
tive government-managed solution primarily due to lawsuits. We
if they so choose. need to place caps on these suits
while avoiding socialized medi-
B. Social Security is a vital part cine. Where possible, we should
of the social safety net and reduce regulation to save money.
should be properly funded and The rising cost of health care is
protected at all times. If primarily the fault of big
necessary, make big business and government politicians and
the rich pay for any shortfalls. Lobbying groups.
C. Government has an obligation to C. Government regulation has gone a
provide for people in their long way toward making health care
twilight years, and Social universally accessible and safe,
security is a proper expression but there's a long way to go. We
of governmental control. The need universal health insurance
system is sound and does not need to ensure all Americans are
anything more than minor adjust- adequately protected.
ments from time to time.
D. Private enterprise has failed to
D. Let people control their own re- deliver satisfactory health
tirement and they'll retire care. Government's role is clear:
richer and better off. The Social fix the problem.
Security system is already bank-
rupt, despite what the poli- QUESTION 10:
ticians and bureaucrats keep What is your view on taxes, spending,
telling us. Allow individuals to and the national debt?
choose for themselves whether to
opt out of the Social Security A. There should be no limits placed
system. If we force everyone to on the ability of government to
remain in its pyramid scheme, the raise sufficient revenue to do all
end result will be disastrous. We the jobs government should be
must act now before Social doing better, as expressed via
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majority rule. Questions 1, 5, and 9
A: U
B. Cut taxes and government spending B: R
by 50% or more. This will have an C: L
incredibly positive impact on the D: D
economy starting at its very
lowest and smallest levels. The Questions 2, 6, and 10:
national debt must be paid down A: D
rather than endlessly increased, B: U
or we'll soon face national C: R
bankruptcy. D: L
C. The budget should be balanced and Questions 3 and 7:
fully funded at all times, rather A: L
than actually cutting spending on B: D
a permanent basis. As needed, the C: U
national debt should be expanded D: R
to ensure that there is
sufficient funding for government Questions 4 and 8:
operation and military growth A: R
needs. Occasional, temporary tax B: L
cuts should be offered in token C: D
amounts to keep the taxpayers D: U
mollified.
D. We should be emphasizing the good
that government can do to help Now that you have your results, take
people without getting all a pencil onto the graph diamond you
wrapped up in the costs involved. cut out. Place it in the exact
By spreading the load, such good center of the grid. For every U, D,
can be spread out fairly and L and R in your letter string, move
evenly. Progressive taxation one space up, down, left or right,
helps ensure that the rich don't respectively. Match your ending
live at the expense of the poor. Position to the chart on page 7.
However, we want to make sure we Voila! You're a libertarian (or
don't place too much of a burden something else)!
on the middle class.
The image on the next page is pre-
sented to you to find your position
That wasn't so hard now, was it? without graph paper. Instructions
The next thing is to examine the are just as simple:
results. For each answer you chose,
jot down the appropriate letter in a 1) Start at the X.
string of letters. For instance, 2) For each U, go up one space.
one person who took the test wrote: For each D, go down one space.
3) For each L, go left one space.
U U R U R U U U R U 4) For each R, go right one space.
ANSWER GRID: Match the symbol you wound up on to
the key to the upper left of the
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 chart. That is your affiliation!
A U D L R U D L R U D The closer to a corner you are, the
B R U D L R U D L R U more intense your view!
C L R U D L R U D L R
D D L R U D L R U D L The closer to a border you are, the
closer you lean to the faction you
Here's longhand to make it clearer: are near.
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Text files are straightforward. One Naturally, the lack of regulation
character per byte. A universally attracted the same unsavory types
accepted ANSI unicode character set. that populate the hidden internet
It was a conscious decision to today. Instead of distributing
publish LiberTORian as a text file. cracked versions of PhotoShop, it
Part of it is nostalgia. Part of it was old DOS games such as �The
is a desire to keep everything President Is Missing� and the �Zork�
absolutely clear. And still part of trilogy. ASCII art was considered
it is to provide a file that is image sharing. The same people who
available to, literally, anyone with hated the rich then are still with
a computer, no matter how ancient. us today, along with those with
manuals to build bombs.
In the halcyon days of dial-up BBS
services, the text file was the Hacking was much less complex, too.
standard mode of mass communication. But they were just as resourceful as
People would share information in today. And there was the 1980s sub-
these private networks, that set, the �phreakers�. In those days
existed before there was a World there was a charge for long distance
Wide Web. These were completely calls. Fon Phreakers were able to
private networks, before the NSA manipulate the phone company with
monitored all our phone calls and secret numbers, DIY technology, and
internet usage. It is the late other methods to make free long
1970s and 1980s equivalent to the distance or pay phone calls. Our
deep web. Text file of the week is a recount
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of an experience from a phone
phreaker, entitled, �The Scariest
Number in the World�. Travel back
in time and look at the world
through the eyes of the author, as
if you're there in his body. Here
is the original text file in its 80
column glory, from the popular fon
phreak magazine, �2600�:
dontcall.phk
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