InfoArchiTexture.VC.7.2231: A Purloined Document (barsoom) 
Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:13:57 CDT (32 lines)

By means of stealth and hackery, I have succeeded in discovering a
hitherto unpublished document at the Hootne Reaper web site...


       Excerpts From The Protocols of The Elders of Hootne

"Our right lies in coercion. The word "right" is a given and is proved by
axiomatic assumption. The word means no more than: Give me what I require
in order that thereby I may have a proof that you are subservient to me."
-- Protocol 1. Article 12.

"The Hosts, whom we shall choose from among the Cafe at large, with
strict regard to their capacities for loyal and servile obedience, will
not be persons trained in the arts of government, rhetoric, or logic and
will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of
cunning and genius who will be their superiors, specially bred and reared
from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole Cafe and eventually
all other Web forums." -- Protocol 2. Article 2.

"In order to put public opinion into our hands we must bring it into a
state of bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many
contradictory opinions and for such length of time as will suffice to make
the academics lose their heads in the labyrinth of Meta and come to see
that the best thing is to have no opinion of any kind in matters
political, which is not given to the public to understand, because they
are understood only by him who guides the public. This is the first
secret." -- Protocol 5. Article 10.

"The Fresh Press, which with a few exceptions that may be disregarded,
is already entirely in our hands.  The single troublesome exception of
a rogue journalist named "Moulton" is being dealt with." -- Protocol 7.
Article 5.