[TheForge] Re: Coak

[Mike Spencer]

Mike Schermerhorn wrote:

> Having just re-read Orwell's "1984"; and with Bush & Co, abolishing
> our Bill of Rights (the Patriots Act), and the revelations of spying
> on our citizens disclosed by Ed Snowden, why would you risk having
> these a--holes putting you on their list.

I'm probably already on some lists.  I wasn't a political activist in
the 60s but, by happenstance, I was around a whole commune of such
people.  One faction of the Liberation News Service, radical but
non-violent, bought the farm house I'd been renting. [ObSmithing:
where I set up my first forge in what had been the 18th c. kitchen of
the original house, by then a woodshed.]  It was pretty clear that
they were targeted by the Cointel guys.  I was even once introduced to
a kinda odd and stiff hanger-about who, my radical friends said, was
an undercover FBI agent.  He denied it, of course.

> Maybe I'm too old for this discussion, but I remember clearly the
> days of early involvement in Vietnam, where if you said anything
> negative about it, you made the FBI list....

Just so.  And now, with habeas corpus toast and administrative
assassination unremarkable, it's more worrisome.  But, you know, Nil
illegitimo carborundum.

Back to smithing (before the List Mom intervenes): An acquaintance
bought the anvil I posted about for C$200 (dickered down from $600) and
still wonders if anyone knows anything about it.

    http://www.kijiji.ca/v-hand-tool/bedford/antique-anvil/1113187499


- Mike

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