From: Robbie Lindauer (robblin@thetip.org)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 11:45:12 MDT
> I can see Creighton and Kass potentially
> making notes and rubbing hands with glee if we provide them
> with two many details of what the right (wrong?) 10 might do
> in future when lives are longer.
Let me preface this with:
I am BY NO MEANS ADVOCATING THAT ANYONE DO THIS. PLEASE < PLEASE>
DON'T DO THIS.
I'm not afraid of Creighton & Kass. Maybe if I give them the hints
they won't kill me? I also don't think our lives would have to be
longer...
Anyway, here's the Brute Force, unimaginative version:
2 Nuclear Physicists
2 Really Pretty Negotiators
1 Engineer
1 Mechanic
1 Fundraiser (slash thief)
3 Scott-Free Traveler/Spy/Thieves with some killer martial arts skills
(I threw that one in for fun)
How to gain the absolute loyalty of the team would depend on how
desperate the group was and/or how ideologically committed they were.
I expect they'd have to believe somehow that they were destined to win,
should win, and that the evil current controllers of the world deserved
their fate. A quasi-religious cult might do. They'd probably also
have to be "syndicalists" - no single person would have control.
What they would do:
1) Raise/Steal $20-$30 million with options for more. Perhaps under
the guise of the Extropian Foundation or something :0
2) Build a relatively small series of "almost" nuclear weapons - maybe
20 or so - machines which when fueled properly would be nuclear.
3) Go steal some nuclear material ( I didn't say it'd be easy, just
that the RIGHT people could do it).
4) Distribute the nuclear material and machines to relatively hard to
find locations in suburbs of major cities.
5) Begin wholesale mass-production of nuclear weapons (you'll need them
later!!!)
6) Activate the existing "strategically placed" ones, make sure to have
a good remote control system!.
7) Announce from a "hard-to-get-to-quickly" position that you're ready
to take over the world. Begin negotiations - one set of useless ones,
one set of useful ones. Be able to quickly move people into the useful
and non-useful slots. Concentrate on making allies of enemies of
currently powerful states. (Oil countries, east-asian countries,
african countries, south-american countries).
8) Demand the surrender of several nations simultaneously (the
superpowers - including the United States, Russia, China, Japan,
France, England, Australia).
9) Call for people's revolutions, vow that anyone who joins you will
be allowed to live. Also start recruiting in earnest. Give less power
to the new recruits - let them work with a promise of material reward,
but NO military power.
10) When the first one balks, blow something BIG up, like Sydney or
Chicago (please, not Los Angeles).
12) When they balk again, blow up London.
13) See how long it take before (some) capitulate.
14) They may not, if not, there's a war on (assuming you followed the
directions).
15) The gambit will be whether or not the rest of the nations will be
willing to risk war(s) on multiple fronts (while the strong get weaker,
the weaker get hungry) or to capitulate.
Lots of issue, but here are the first few off the top of my head:
how to protect YOURSELVES - - everyone gets access to the remote
control network, everyone is stationed in a different part of the globe
- unless they get Mossad involved, you'll probably be fine (note to
potentials, don't try to take over Israel this way until AFTER you've
gotten to the US).
how to maintain loyalty and commitment - it's a 5-10 years project,
people lose interest... - perhaps engender a party-atmosphere with the
cohorts, listen to a lot of Prince music, etc.
how to maintain moral detachment - probably some kind of Trotskyism
would do.
Finally - I am BY NO MEANS ADVOCATING THAT ANYONE DO THIS. PLEASE <
PLEASE> DON'T DO THIS.
Robbie
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