But I don't expect my arguments to persuade anyone in the NSA.
If you're NSA and I do somehow convince you, by some fluke, then I
urge you to look at your conscience -- I know you have one -- and
take the word to your superiors and if they don't agree with you --
*resign.* Leave the Agency. Resign now, and if I'm right about
what's coming down the line, you'll be glad you didn't wait till later.
But even though I have a good line of gab, I don't expect to
actually argue people out of their livelihood. That's notoriously
difficult.
So CFP people, you have a fight on your hands. I'm sorry that a
community this young should have to face a fight this savage, for
such terribly high stakes, so soon. But what the heck; you're
always bragging about how clever you are; here's your chance to
prove to your fellow citizens that you're more than a crowd of net-
nattering MENSA dilettantes. In cyberspace one year is like seven
dog years, and on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, so I figure
that makes you CFP people twenty-eight years old. And people, for
the sake of our society and our children you had better learn to act
your age.
Good luck. Good luck to you. For what it's worth, I think you're
some of the best and brightest our society has to offer. Things look
dark but I feel hopeful. See you next year in San Francisco.
