Many organizations today are considered bad or
"evil".
Groups like the
Ku Klux Klan, The Anarchy
Organization, Supreme White
Power, which are Skinheads and Neo-Nazis, and Phreaks are a few of
these
groups. These groups all have one
thing in common......they
somehow break the
law. The Ku Klux Klan
"terrorized public officials in
efforts to drive
them from office and blacks in general to prevent them from
voting and
holding office." ( Microsoft
Encarta 1995 Ku Klux Klan)
The
"Klansmen" flogged, mutilated, or murdered their victims. Supreme
White Power (SWP)
or "skin heads" are somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan.
The skin head
groups are more local rather than the Ku Klux Klan, who all
have one
leader.
The Anarchy Organization is
totally against
government. Their main idea is to be free. The reason why this
organization is
considered "evil" is because of bombings and activities like
that from certain
anarchists. Phreaks are hackers, but they don't just
specialize in
computers. They are also into phones
and electronic things
that they can rip
off. As you will later see, this organization and our
government
strongly resemble 1984's government and the Brotherhood.
The Ku Klux Klan people haven't gotten out of the idea
the black people
and other foreigners are evil, which
they call, "alien
outsiders". These "outsiders" are "all
non-Protestants, aliens, liberals,
trade unionists
and striking workers". (Microsoft
Encarta 1995) Their
traditions have
been pasted down from generation to
generation since
1865. Lately,
Klansmen have been running for office and other
government jobs
like that. Although the Ku Klux Klan
and the
Brotherhood have
nothing really outstandingly in
common, they are both
considered evil
by their society which are the U.S. government and the
Party. The Ku Klux Klan is not fighting to make things better, nor are
they doing
anything constructive. In the Brotherhood they are out to
make life better for all.
The Anarchy Organization's purpose, according to
Webster's Ninth
New Collegiate Dictionary, is to
abolish "established
order using
violent ways". Basically
anarchists are out to overthrow any
law. In
The Anarchy Organization's page they summarize what they are
after and what
they want. They call themselves
"artists fighting infections
f capital
plague-machine society and the assault of free minds." (The
Anarchy
Organization, page one) "TAO fights now for our lives, our
minds, and our planet." (The Anarchy Organization, page two.)
These people are
not doing anything now to fight for their cause. Like in
1984, if these people surface, government will quickly shut these
people up and try
and cover up. Anarchists have begun
to think and
have chosen to
rebel against their government.
Perhaps everyone else
has been
brainwashed into thinking that government is the best.
Members of the
Brotherhood think, remember, and know something is
not right with
their society. Just like the
anarchists see all the laws being
broken and rights
violated. there is a new bill that
simply wants to have
censorship on the
internet so you cannot access anything "bad". This
violates the 1st
Amendment which gives us the right to freedom of speech
and freedom of
the press, but this bill some how even
made it to court.
In 1984,
people against The Party saw that the quantity of food
distributed was
becoming less. The Party stated, while
talking about
chocolate,
something that now they'll be giving more chocolate to each
family. This was obviously a lie when last week the
quantity was more.
In the
Brotherhood they believed in truth and letting people live
life as
they want to
live it, just like The Anarchy Organization.
Supreme White Power has over 30 different major
organizations. "The members of these groups have one
big thing in
common: they hate members of racial, ethnic or religious groups that
are not the same
as their own." (White supremacy
on the rise by Mike
Harpin) The main people targeted of hatred and violence are Jewish
people, Hispanics,
Asians, blacks and people who
are Catholic
Christians. The
more well-known groups are the Ku Klux Klan,
the
Neo-Nazis, and the Skinheads. The reason why the Ku Klux Klan is
separate from the
Neo-Nazis and the Skinheads is because the Ku Klux
Klan's hatred and violence is aimed more towards blacks
rather than the
Neo-Nazis and the
Skinheads, whose hatred is aimed more
towards the
Jewish
people. The Neo-Nazis, sometimes called White Aryan
Resistance, is a group that follows under Adolph
Hitler's philosophies,
which
targets Jewish people. Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads
do not join
because they believe in the cause.
Many join the "gang" to
feel apart of
something because they feel that they do not belong anywhere
else. "Then others join because they like
looking "different"."
(White
Supremacy on the
Rise. by Mike Harpin) You can spot a Skinhead by
their style. This style or "uniform" includes fatigues, flight jackets,
suspenders that
hang down, and steel-toed boots or Doc
Martens. The
most obvious
thing about one is their shaved head.
These people stand
out
purposely. Unlike the
Brotherhood, they don't have to be
afraid of
government. The thing these Skinheads or Neo-Nazis
fear are racial
groups that will
and do fight back. The Skinheads say
they aren't afraid
of anything, but when you have groups and tons of people
out to kill you,
you should be
afraid. In 1984,
the Brotherhood could not march
around and
protest like some Skinheads do. The
Skinheads and
Neo-Nazis do not
target government like the Brotherhood does.
Either
way, they are both hated by society. It seems reasonable to hate the
White Supremacy
groups because all they do is cause trouble,
anger,
and pain, which
most people do not want. In the
Brotherhood they
believe in
letting people choose what religion or
what they want to do with
their life.
Phreaks are hackers. They are a group of people from
around the world
that love to hack others computers and systems. Many
people believe
that these "hackers" only
cause trouble and hurt people.
When in fact many
Phreaks go around and improve systems.
They write
programs and all
sorts of things for the public to enjoy.
They may break
into bank's computers, but they do not always take something. One
Phreak was
bragging about how he got into a bank's computer and saw "all
those
numbers". When he was asked, "how much did you take?". His reply
was, " none". Phreaks get satisfaction from knowing they
can beat
security. Every year different groups of Phreaks get
together and hack the
world. A couple times they played with NASA's
temperature control, air
port's
times, and power plant's settings.
No harm was caused though.
The reason why
powerful Phreaks are hated by government is because they
can control a lot
of their computers and systems. Many
of the popular
Phreaks have
connections into agencies like the Secret Service, NSA,
etc. and can get all sorts of information. The Secret Service has been
making threats to
these people and magazines. Magazines
like "Phrack"
and
"2600", are constantly being
harassed because of what they put in
their
magazine. One of the writers for
Phrack, Emmanuel Goldstein,
was getting phone
calls from anonymous people, threating
to shut them
down because they
know too much or it could be because of their ideas
about
government. Their ideas are almost the
same as the anarchists.
In many phreak's
home pages, they have a link to various
anarchy pages.
The difference
between the phreaks and the anarchist is that many phreaks
like to play
around with government things, instead
of trying to get rid of
government. They need
something to hack into that would be a
challenge. The threats of shutting down the
magazines or anything of
that sort directly violates the 1st Amendment.
The freedom of speech.
Emmanuel
Goldstein is not this person's real
name. The name
coincidentally
comes from 1984. Its obvious that Emmanuel Goldstein
thinks of himself
as the Emmanuel Goldstein of 1984. In
1984, the
author pushes you
towards believing that the Party members are
the bad
guys and the
Brotherhood as the good guys. If you
thought of the
Brotherhood as
good, why would the Phreaks be bad? Phreaks and
anarchists see
society and government the same way,
but Phreaks only go
half way with
government. They want to get rid of
many laws, but they
do not want
"chaos". A difference
between the Brotherhood and Phreaks
is the way they
are treated. If someone was caught
being a part of the
Brotherhood, the Party would make a big deal about
it. The way Phreaks
are treated
is: "What?" The Phreaks that do cause trouble are
locked
away
quietly. This might be done because our government has
something to
hide. And when the police say they
have caught the best
hacker in the
world, its to make them look good. There is no best
hacker because
there are many specialties and the best hackers do not get
caught. Both organizations expose how bad and what
our government is
doing. The simple presence of the Brotherhood
says that many people
see a problem in
their government. Some Phreaks have
posted secret
messages, de-coded on the internet, showing what is happening in
different
government agencies. Phreaks have not
opened security to the
public, they were allowed to by their rights.
Some of these groups are considered bad, but the
choice is up to
the individual. Our government seems
to be moving
towards a 1984
society, where you are not free at all. The Bill of Rights
is here to
protect us from someone higher hurting us,
but the US
Government seems
to violate these rights. We the people
should not let
this happen. 1984
does a good job illustrating what might happen if we
do not stop this
bill passing madness. We have already
begun to see the
slow process of
government taking over. It's just a
warning to us all.
Bibliography
1. "Ku Klux Klan," Microsoft (R) Encarta.
Copyright (c) 1994
Microsoft
Corporation Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wangnails Corporation.
2. White Supremacy on the Rise. By Mike Harpin
3. Traditional Skinheads vs. Non-Traditional Skinheads. By
Anonymous
4. The Anarchy Organization on-line by ?????
(no name was given)
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