Re: The right 10 people.

From: Robbie Lindauer (robblin@thetip.org)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 12:31:48 MDT

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    On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 09:13 PM, Brett Paatsch wrote:

    >>> The opinion-movers would flee the major cities, after which
    >>> it would never be in their interest to have their country
    >>> surrender.
    >>
    >> Obviously, following Trotsky, you'd have to kill them FIRST.
    >
    > Robbie this strikes me as somewhat of a non-minor detail.

    Point well taken. I've never claimed to be among the "right 10 people"
    so that'd be something for them to decide.

    So, for instance, preemptively and without warning, nuking tokyo, los
    angeles, new york, san francisco, chicago, washington, london, paris,
    munich, berlin, beijing, (and of course, wherever GW Bush happens to be
    vacationing at the moment) etc., might be a necessity. If the Queen of
    England survives the rubble of London, she wouldn't be able to make a
    significant move any faster that the TEAM would be.

    I expect that destroying the communication infrastructure for the other
    political elite would be a primary goal. In the US, for instance, a
    major catastrophe in Los Angeles, DC and New York would be enough to
    really whack the mainstream television/news networks. If you could
    time it with the release of a really vicious DDOS-style virus, you'd
    have blocked information from the political elite to their followers in
    the US (just as an example) (since the combination of a congested
    network and failing smtp servers worldwide would effectively put the
    internet QUA means of military organization out of business). That
    would leave the Military networks isolated from Civilian Networks.

    If the military were simultaneously over-committed (like the current US
    military) the military would be unable to effectively respond without
    their political leadership, leaving it up to the FBI/CIA to deal with
    the threat. You could expect half the CIA to join you if you offered
    them the right kind of incentives :) (since most of them are working
    for two side as it is...)

    In (most) other countries, the communication infrastructure doesn't
    exist at the level it does here, so toppling the government isn't as
    big a deal. In Hungary, for instance, I think most of the people
    wouldn't care if you toppled their government as long as you didn't
    replace it with something really egregious.

    Okay, this has been fun, but I admit it, I'm no world-conqueror and not
    even interested in doing it.

    I am interested in the future possibility of it by some
    hyper-technologically advanced coup, though, make a good novel.

    R



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