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[elfismiles]

What possible internet / electronic network event could be big enough to equate to 911? Hospital electricity cutoff by hackers killing 3000 people?

Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that “There’s going to be an i-9/11 event” which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.

Lessig also revealed that he had learned, during a dinner with former government Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, that there is already in existence a cyber equivalent of the Patriot Act, an “i-Patriot Act” if you will, and that the Justice Department is waiting for a cyber terrorism event in order to implement its provisions.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3753

[§ê¢rꆧ]

This is some scary stuff... as much as we moan about the time-wasting on the Net, I still think it is the one of the greatest accomplishments of all time.

Here's the video.. relevant bit at about 4:50 or so
Google Video Link

[H_C_E]

And we're all going to die too!

Here at RI every day is the end of the world, and anything and everything bad that can happen will happen.

I wonder how many of the doomy, gloomy scenarios mentioned here in the last few years have actually come to pass?

Gotta' go, the sky is falling.
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[elfismiles]

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Well Lessig is not one known to make wild, hyperbolic statements, and so that's why this sort of makes me stand up and notice. Still, it *is* hard to imagine something happening on the Internet that is on the scale of 911. Obviously his statement isn't coming from a 911 truth perspective, but one wonders if he has some doubts about the official story...

[smiths]

counter to H_C_E's dismissive response i think this is really important and one of the most likely events of the next couple of years,
theres no doubt that managing perceptions is essential to keeping control,
the internet is the biggest threat to that in a long time

if i were very powerful and my singular mission was to maintain my position and wealth and the order that allowed it,
i would consider the internet unacceptable in its current form

and as with all these things a horrific event would be needed to justify it

so i say, as much as possible, save articles, books, images, and dicussions on your hard drive, suck up as much info and knowledge as you can while you can

[nathan28]

[H_C_E]

[vigilant]

After the sorts of "setups" we have already seen by these people i'm not sure why anybody would doubt that its more probable than simply possible. I really don't believe that it would take a "true" catastrophe for them to impose any regulations they truly desire.

A smaller event could be falsely construed to be more prevelant than it truly is to lay the foundation.

Quite often simply "defining" something as dangerous is all it takes.

"power perceived is power achieved"



As far as whether many of the strange or doomy things discussed on this board ever come true...I have been surprised by the number of them that have come true. A lot of ground breaking things have happened in the last ten years, and it blows my mind how much of it I saw discussed here first.
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