Oct 29 2004
Sad day for AmeaNet
I was hardly awake when my Internet Service Provider called to tell me that ameanet’s server was generating so much data traffic that the monthly costs would exceed 10.000 dollars if this would go on for a while. It all started with a forum on Military.com deep linking to Fahrenheit 9/11. You may know this site, where moms and dads are trying to feel in touch with their sons and daughters who fight their endless war on terrorism.
Call me paranoid, but I really see no reason why Fahrenheit 9/11 should be deep linked on Military.com other than the childish wish to crash our server or to drain our funds. The link was instantly erased once I removed Fahrenheit 9/11 from our server and started linking back to their site on our front page.
I feel really sad about this. We were doing fine, some 8000 people of our own visitors managed to see F 9/11 within the limits of our data traffic. I really wanted to create a small counter weight against all that war talk the Bush regime is showering the world with. I wanted to make a statement, but I guess I am just an old hippie who finds himself at war with an apparently very frightened regime.
Do you know of that other movie, made back in the 60′s or 70′s, where a tiny country with a lot of poverty sails out to invade the USA with just one ship, being sure that they will be conquered so that they will enjoy the financial benefits of other countries conquered by the USA? For some stupid reason they won that war. If I remember well they landed in New York and found no resistance because everybody had gone into hiding in fear of a nuclear attack.
What has happened to this proud nation that is forcing anything from hamburgers, baseball caps to herpes upon the rest of the world? Do they really need the military to shut up one old fool like me?
Apparently they do.
After Hitler and Stalin were removed from power the world started to idealize Napoleon. After Bush I am afraid that the world will start to remember Hitler as a somewhat neurotic genius who built the best highways in Europe and did a lot of good for its economy.