infinite justice digest #1

Thu Sep 20 21:06:11 CDT 2001

I think if you dig deep you'll find that the person responsible for coming 
up with the moniker 'Operation Infinite Justice' also wrote many of Steven 
Segal's finer films. I still see Jeff Speakman playing the lead, however.

From: "rhaenda" <rhaenda at swbell.net>
To: "vision of tristerowne" <silent-tristero at world.std.com>,        
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: infinite justice digest #1
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:37:38 -0500

Hi fellow paranoids.  Remember the proverb:  You hide, They seek.

Why is the Bush Dynasty so inept at naming things?  Infinite Justice?  Just 
Cause?  Desert storm?  Or are they inept?   Perhaps the all-your-base meme 
of several months ago was a communication amongst Them as to the fate of Us. 
The meme was a Peircean sign with countersign, 'Give me my sweater back or 
I'll play the guitar.'  Another additional message comes in the form of the 
the crop circle at Arricebo.  Draw an inference from the popularity of the 
SETI distributed computation, voluntarily and cheerfully installed on 
millions of computers, a computation that has occupied gazillions of machine 
cycles in an supposed search for Aliens screaming across the sky. Can it all 
be coincidence? Now the Worm is alleged to be occupying computers
world-wide. Don't you wonder what those computers are calculating (and for 
whom?) whilst the Worm turns in their most secret regions of memory?
Nothing less than a change to the very fabric of reality Tristero Raises Its 
Shout To Empires Reading Orders.   Now everybody...

----- Original Message -----
From: "vision of tristerowne" <silent-tristero at world.std.com>
To: <silent-tristero at world.std.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: infinite justice digest #1

 >
 >
 > Re: the verdict is in
 > from kalex at eecs.umich.edu
 > and Chris Leithiser <cleithis at bc.cc.ca.us>
 > and Kevin Maguire <kpmag at pacbell.net>
 > and "Sean Colbath" <sean at colbath.org>
 >
 >
 >
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 > From: kalex at eecs.umich.edu
 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:06:48 -0400 (EDT)
 > Subject: Re: the verdict is in
 >
 > > Subject: the verdict is in
 > >
 > > Operation Infinite Justice.
 >
 > You know you're thinking it.  You're just too polite to say it.
 > You're sitting there hoping that no one is enough of a tasteless,
 > tactless, crass idiot to actually say it, but your luck has just run out.
 >
 > in a.d. 2001
 > war was beginning.
 > dubya: what happen ?
 > giuliani: somebody set up us the bomb.
 > powell: we get signal.
 > dubya: what !
 > powell: news network turn on.
 > dubya: it's you !!
 > binladen: how are you gentlemen !!
 > binladen: all your plane are belong to us.
 > binladen: you are on the way to destruction.
 > dubya: what you say !!
 > binladen: you have no chance to survive make your time.
 > binladen: ha ha ha ha ....
 > dubya: take off every 'f16'!!
 > dubya: we know not what we doing.
 > dubya: move 'f16'.
 > dubya: for INFINITE JUSTICE.
 >
 > [It helps if you're familiar with more of the prose of, uh,
 > Zero Wing(?) than just it's infamous tag-line.
 >
 > This site helps, alot: http://www.allyourbase.net/
 >
 > Doesn't bin Laden have a place that's just referred to as
 > ``Base''? ---pozzo]
 >
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 >
 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:41:52 -0700
 > From: Chris Leithiser <cleithis at bc.cc.ca.us>
 > Subject: Re: the verdict is in
 >
 > Sean Colbath wrote:
 > >
 > > Operation Infinite Justice.
 >
 > So I heard on the radio, driving home at lunch yesterday.  I was _sure_
 > the guy said "Impotent Justice."
 >
 > Don't they say these things out loud before approving them?
 >
 >
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 >
 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:33:37 -0400
 > From: Kevin Maguire <kpmag at pacbell.net>
 > Subject: Re: the verdict is in
 >
 > Sean Colbath wrote:
 > >
 > > Operation Infinite Justice.
 >
 > Which turns out to have been a bad choice, if that is
 > the real name.
 >
 > At Rumsfeld's press conference this afternoon, one of the
 > reporters asked if that was the real name, because the reporter
 > has already heard from offended American Muslims, who are
 > upset because only Allah can administer Infinite anything,
 > especially justice.
 >
 > Rumsfeld replied that someone, somewhere, in some level
 > of some agency, may have chosen that name for something, but
 > that it's not an official name for the War On Terrorism
 > at this time.  Then he thanked the reporter for letting him
 > know that the name might be considered offensive.
 >
 > Rumsfeld displayed an amazing ability to avoid giving any
 > information whatsoever in response to certain questions,
 > which means at least three quarters of the questions were
 > answered with either:
 >
 >  - I can't say anything at all about any kind of rumor,
 >    because if I refute 4 rumors and not another one, I've
 >    validated the fifth rumor, and I don't have time to
 >    squash all the rumors
 >
 >  - we've received many different offers of help from many
 >    other countries, some openly and some not, some military
 >    and some not.  And that's all I will say;  other countries
 >    can tell you whatever they like about what they may or
 >    may not be doing with us
 >
 > He had to say some variation of each of these things at least
 > a dozen times over about half an hour.  My favorite was in
 > response to a question asking what was in a troop deployment
 > order he signed yesterday, which went something like this:
 >
 >   "See, there's one of those questions with assumptions, this
 >    time about a supposed deployment order.  Next question."
 >
 > He did, later, offer up that he signs deployment orders almost
 > every day, including before last week, since nobody goes anywhere
 > without a deployment order.
 >
 >
 > [I have to admit that my first thought was that ``infinite
 > justice'' has a rather theological ring to it.
 >
 > You know, I wish these guys would get their prose right to
 > begin with.  On the other hand, I think it's probably a good
 > thing that they *apologize* when their mistaken terminology
 > is pointed out.  I guess that's the triumph of the
 > ``political correctness'' movement --- a sensitivity to the
 > nuances of language that is wholly appropriate. ---pozzo]
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > From: "Sean Colbath" <sean at colbath.org>
 > Subject: Re: the verdict is in
 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:09:05 -0400
 >
 > Looks like the name may be changing...
 >
 > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010920/ts/attack_name_dc_1.html
 >
 > However, it does seem to me to be rather a nit...  At some point, we're
 > going to be bombing the snot out of someone, and it's not likely that
people
 > who don't like that fact are going to sit around saying "Gee, I could
really
 > could have gotten on board with America, if only they hadn't named it
 > 'Operation Bend Over'"...!
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Kevin Maguire" <kpmag at pacbell.net>
 > To: "Sean Colbath" <sean at colbath.org>; "list silent-tristero"
 > <silent-tristero at world.std.com>
 > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:33 PM
 > Subject: Re: the verdict is in
 >
 >
 > > Sean Colbath wrote:
 > > >
 > > > Operation Infinite Justice.
 > >
 > > Which turns out to have been a bad choice, if that is
 > > the real name.
 > >
 > > At Rumsfeld's press conference this afternoon, one of the
 > > reporters asked if that was the real name, because the reporter
 > > has already heard from offended American Muslims, who are
 > > upset because only Allah can administer Infinite anything,
 > > especially justice.
 >
 >
 >
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 >
 >
 >
 >

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