[FedCom] What's the freq used by the voices inside his head?

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In a message dated 6/7/2003 1:03:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, T.K. Ruffzarf
 writes:

>  Or ANY police-state, for that matter, part of the rat-out-your-neighbor 
> program so popular in North Korea. WAKE UP people, you are being 
> MANIPULATED. Has anyone out there been in the Air Force?
> Do you know how NORAD would NORMALLY work?  Do you know how high the 
> collusion must be with people (a select few) very high up in the executive 
> branch and military to have allowed 9/11 to occur?
> Do you understand how many people HAD to be involved, and that the support 
> of some major intelligence service (MOSSAD false-flag op, perhaps??) HAD to 
> occur?

   Wow, it's one thing to just be paranoid, another thing to just be stupid, 
but when the two traits come-together as they did in that missive, you can't 
help but be impressed!

   This is the perfect example why I cringe at the silly notion that us 
scanner-geeks would somehow be better suited to observe & report 'suspicious' 
activity than any other member of the public.

   Obviously not everyone here is as much as a longstanding paranoid nut-job 
as "Ruffzarf" is, but you don't have to have been a member of this list for 
too long --or to have attended too many radio hobbyist events like Dayton 
Hamvention or the old Grove/MT Conventions to realize that a major percentage of 
people interested in this hobby are 'challenged' when it comes to mainstream 
social skills.  


   So I'm glad that people like "Ruffzarf" are opposed to reporting 
suspicious activities.  So many people probably try to avoid him that he'd otherwise be 
calling a hotline left & right to report all the 'suspicious' people who duck 
away when he sees them, and his paranoia --combined with his blatant 
stupidity such as whipping up the quote of "traditionally 95% of monitors are 
hobbyists and 5% very smart crooks
 would tie-up resources." means that he's doing us taxpayers some major 
favors.

   One the other hand, while we might not all be as crazed as "Ruffzarf," I 
don't think Al Stern's notion that we can somehow provide some sort of anti or 
counter terrorism
benefit above & beyond what any decent citizen could is too sound, either, 
but Al could probably make a few bucks selling some plastic 'National 
Anti-Terrorism Scanner Interlopers' ("NATSI") badges anyway.


   Phred


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