Douglas Lenat and the Unibomber\r\n\r\n<\/p>
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Douglas Lenat is the president of a defense contracting corporation in\r\nAustin, Texas. Cycorp, his corporation, does work for DARPA. \r\nHowever, Cycorp also does business with the CIA and the NSA. Until the\r\nTotal Information Awareness project was\r\ncancelled and re-parceled out under various covers, Cycorp was a major\r\nrecipient of funds for the TIA - a project tasked to create a large and\r\nuniversal database, providing the Government the opportunity to track the\r\nactivities of Americans. Mr. DeVoy, a target of relentless online stalking\r\nsince working for Cycorp, played a leading role in exposing the\r\nTIA to the public (listen\r\nto radio interview). The TIA project was directed by John Poindexter,\r\nof the Iran\/Contra scandal fame. Poindexter was convicted of lying to\r\nCongress under oath, a felony. Later, his conviction was dismissed, not on\r\nthe grounds that he did not lie to Congress, by on the grounds that he was given\r\nimmunity for the testimony. The judge's decision is highly questionable.<\/p>\r\n
John Poindexter has also been implicated in the CIA\/Drug ring alleged to have\r\noperated to fund the Contras. The Government of Costa Rica is sufficiently\r\nconvinced of Poindexter's involvement that they have barred him from entering\r\nCosta Rica for life.<\/p>\r\n
For a period of time spanning more than a decade, the Unibomber\r\nbombed various individuals he perceived to be technological leaders. \r\nTheodore John Kaczynski was convicted for the crimes of the Unibomber in the\r\nmid-1990s. After his arrest, the FBI informed Douglas Lenat the he had\r\nbeen on the Unibomber's list. Several individuals were notified of their\r\ndisposition regarding Kaczynski's list. Lenat himself told the author of\r\nthis piece that he was on the Unibomber's list and that several technologists\r\nconsider it a mark of honor. Kaczynski is a self declared anarchist.<\/p>\r\n
Anarchist Stephen DeVoy worked for Douglas B. Lenat as the leader of the\r\nprogramming department. In the wake of 9\/11, Lenat learned the DeVoy was\r\nan anarchist and maintained several anarchist websites. Douglas Lenat\r\ncalled Mr. DeVoy into his office to question him about his political\r\nbeliefs. DeVoy confirmed that he was an anarchist. Mr. Lenat then\r\ntold Mr. DeVoy that he considered Anarchism to be a very dangerous political\r\nphilosophy. Following this event, three more managers at Cycorp harassed\r\nMr. DeVoy for being an anarchist. The topic came up in management meetings\r\nwhere Mr. DeVoy was present. Upper level manager, Michael Whitbrock,\r\nstated that Mr. Lenat could fire Mr. DeVoy for being an anarchist because being\r\nan anarchist was a choice.<\/p>\r\n
During this period of time, Mr. DeVoy began to receive anonymous online death\r\nthreat threats. The online terrorists announced that he would soon be\r\nfired from his job for being an anarchist. Shortly thereafter he was fired\r\nfrom his job. The online harassment continues today. Additional\r\nstalking has occurred at political events and has been documented.<\/p>\r\n
Information held only by Cycorp has found its way into the hands of the\r\nharassment group. The harassment group claims to have connections to the\r\nU.S. Government and access to U.S. Government databases. The leader of the\r\nharassment group has targeted other anarchists with websites. One of these\r\nis Sherman Austin of Raise The Fist. The harassment group takes credit for\r\nturning him into the FBI and having him arrested and jailed.<\/p>\r\n
Recently, Mr. DeVoy opened a website to\r\nprovide materials to anarchist parents. Mr. DeVoy is a parent himself\r\nand wanted a collection of stories that he could share with his child. \r\nSince few anarchist children stories were available, Mr. DeVoy began writing\r\nthem himself and publishing them on the website.<\/p>\r\n
Immediately following the publication of these stories, the leader of the\r\nharassment group became incensed and engaged in an online campaign to harass any\r\nwebsite publishing the stories. He has declared his belief that children\r\nshould not be taught about anarchism and that the children of anarchists should\r\nbe taken away from them by the state. He\r\nbecame so upset about the idea of children learning about anarchism that he\r\npersonally called the host of the website and promises that it will be shut down\r\nby Friday of this week. There is no illegal content on the\r\nwebsite. In fact, the website is a philosophy website, not a political\r\nwebsite.<\/p>\r\n
I believe that the parallels between Mr. Lenat and the harassment\r\norganization cannot be ignored. I ask anyone in the press interested in\r\nthis story to investigate it.<\/p>\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Is online harassment against Anarchists being assisted by those once targeted by the Unibomber?","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/12\/120327.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":120592,"heading":"New Twist","article":"Lenat's company, Cycorp, has taken out "dead peasant's" insurance on one of its targets. What does this mean? It means Cycorp cashes in if an employee it is harassing online kills himself.","author":"Observer","parent_id":120327,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-12-30 06:02:54","modified":"2004-12-30 06:02:54","fileurl":""}]}