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In article <305@tifsie.UUCP>, kent@tifsie.UUCP (Russell Kent) writes:
> To those persons who add "Intelligence Agency food" to their postings:
> your practice is foolish, even downright reckless; to wit:
>    ... 
>     3. You are bringing yourself to the attention of the Intelligence
>        Agency.  Believe me, THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.  Those
>        people are _dead serious_, and more often than not, DO NOT
>        PLAY UNDER THE SAME RULES THAT YOU AND I DO.  They have powers
>        and abilities (albeit infrequently used) that you don't even
>        want to have nightmares about being used against you. (Ever
>        thought about what a cramp in your lifestyle it would be if you
>        just disappeared without a trace? :-)
> 
> By far, #3 is the one you probably should worry about most.
>
True, but probably not too big a worry.  Those people aren't total idiots,
and they are all probably quite used to filtering out rantings about the
security agencies from naive civilians.  If they weren't, they'd spend all
their time chasing wild geese, and not "defending their country".

After all, the US media is chock full of all sorts of stuff (accurate or
otherwise) about the security/intelligence agencies.  Many publications
(the Nation, the Progressive, the Washington Post) are still in business,
and even publishing things by the same writers.

You are only in danger if they decide to take you seriously, or if you
somehow manage to offend one of them personally, or one of them takes 
a liking to your SO, or...

Personally, I kinda like such signatures; they're dumb but cute.  And
they don't really waste all that much bandwidth.  Of course, by now I'd
like to see something more original or humerus.  [My spelling checker
didn't catch that one, did it?]

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