<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I don't think that's true. Sexual preferences have often been used to blackmail people -- and, in terms of security, has often been seen as a liability because someone might be blackmailed. In other words, if you were gay and in the closet, this might be seen as a way that foreign agents might manipulate you -- even if you were not, say, on their side ideologically, in their pay, or perhaps had a desire to change history.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Darren Greer <darren.greer3@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, December 9, 2010 12:36:32 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Wikileaks.<BR></FONT><BR><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><BR></SPAN></DIV>>No, nutters are common. It is just that most of they do not matter. (proud recipient of two crazy missives today)<</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face="arial, sans-serif"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">Since 2001 it's been very difficult to determine who may be nutters and who may not. Someone mentioned the likelihood of people on this group being on enemy lists (can't find the post now but I know I read it.) I can say from experience it doesn't take much to make them. After the U.S. invaded Iraq I began writing some unflattering essays on U.S. foreign and domestic security policy and published some of them in a book of essays released in 2005 in Canada. It was then that I began to notice some unusual traffic on my .ca website -- U.S. government agencies, including the FBI, were regularly crawling it. Hardly anyone read or bought that book, but someone apparently noticed it. I took the site down eventually.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face="arial, sans-serif"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">A few years later when living in California I became friends with an infamous gay pornographer who had been called by a Tuft's University professor in a lecture on 21st century morality "the embodiment of the post-human." Because of this friendship, I again went on the U.S. intelligence radar. I am now the proud owner of an FBI file. I would not even have known this much if I hadn't been introduced in San Francisco to an ex-FBI agent who was a friend of a friend. I really don't understand the world of intelligence and enemy lists and national security anyway. The lines between what is considered subversive activity, and even thinking, and what is civically acceptable are so blurred that the whole thing has become one big, sinister mess. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face="arial, sans-serif"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">It was easier in the old days, when you could be black-listed for carrying a copy of Das Capital across the border but the kind of sex you preferred would only affect your chances for getting elected to public office. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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