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From HYDRA@delphi.com  Thu Feb 17 18:45:17 1994

Subject: Re: RESIST: MODUS OPERANDI ISSUE ONE



***        Modus Operandi v1 n1         ***

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***   [ A compilation of the writings   ***

***   of the Resist project ]           ***

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***    The Journal of the Resistance    ***



A Hard Copy of this journal is available by mail (see end)

(hard copy version has extra articles, as well as art and 

photos)... look at the UWI ftp site for more info (nohod.cat)



[Upon it's completion, nohod.cat will be a catalog of products 

available thru NoHoD Pub Co, including the demo and 

compilation tapes soon to be published by NoHoD Music, as well 

as various associated zines and projects]

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***

This is sort of a seed issue of the journal, since it is the 

first, there is an obvious shortage in reader/activist 

response, the type of response Resist is built around.  As a 

result, to give a feel for what we are, and what were doing, 

this issue contains all of the Resist material to date, as 

well as some material from ToR #3, a zine which is fading out 

and still has some cool materials and submissions which were 

going to be, but never were printed in #3.  Therefore, this is 

actually a conglomerate of half Resist and half ToR, future 

issues will have only Resist stuff in them...  We hope you 

enjoy this issue, and more so that regardless of if you agree 

with us or not, you write to us and tell us your thoughts.  

This concept of hardcopy exchange of views and ideas allows 

for some 'unheard' concepts to come to light...

***





   

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A Short Explanation of the Resist project

(And a request for submissions)

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by Sluggo and Mr. Hands



'Resist' is a special 

project being funded and published by NoHoD Pub Co.



The original concept of Resist is to create a (hardcopy) 

exchange of information, enlightenment, and revelation.  Not 

only do we distribute our own material, but we also hope 

that readers of Resist will send in their writings, essays, 

revelations, idea, and anything important and 

'changing'.  These things can range from carefully written 

essays to late-night revelations scrawled on scratch paper.  

These 'submissions' (not really submissions, we except 

EVERYTHING, no screening at all) will be compiled and 

published thru Resist.  We do write our own stuff, on a very 

wide variety of topics, but if !only! we did the writing, then 

Resist would become very one-sided.  If you disagree with 

something said in something we publish, by all means, write a 

response...



Therefore we encourage you to send every revelation, every 

thought you have to us, and we will do our best to show it to 

everyone else.  Stuff (of any sort... writings, music, art) can 

be sent to:



Resist

POBox 5356

Louisville, KY

40205



and writings and rants (essays... etc.) can be sent to 

hydra@delphi.com on the internet (email).  Do not be afraid to 

send your work, because you feel it is too unrefined, or too 

odd, we strive on odd revelations and new ideas (chains of 

thought).  Stuff can be sent formatted (Laid out on a ready 

to photocopy page) or unformatted (we will lay it out for 

you).  And once again everything will be re sent.  



By now you are probably wondering how to receive the writings, 

propaganda, etc...  To get a reply of some sort, and as much 

propaganda as we can fit send as many SASEs as you can, or as 

many stamps as you can to:



Resist

POBox 5356

Louisville, KY

40205



We will try to keep track of who has gotten what, so if you 

join us late we will pack all the old stuff together and send 

it.  Once again, please send your thoughts, this is what 

drives us.



Once every so often, depending on the flow of things, all of 

the Resist writings will be compiled in an issue of Modus 

Operandi, and produced in a zine-like form.  This is an 

easier way to collect the Resist writings, although it is not 

quite as interactive as a mail exchange.  We will keep both in 

equal running.



** Also, check for Resist stuff at the UWI ftp site,      **

** 141.214.4.135 /docs/nohod or write to hydra@delphi.com **

** to find out about getting resist stuff via e-mail      **

** and usenet.                                            **

                                     

** Now look for resist material at the Spunk Press location[s] 

too **





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Hide, Strike, Mutate, Hide

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by will siss

<ws3524a@auvm.american.edu>





  As long as there is culture, there will always be a subculture. 

As long as there are heroes, there will be antiheroes. As long 

as there is logic, someone will be there to explode it all to hell.



  The best we can do is educate ourselves and then keep it to 

ourselves. Hide: and construct cabals of informed rebellion. 

The world's governments are rich with propoganda - it is our duty

to subvert with specifics, an agenda, and a vision.



  Once the undergrounds are established, the world above will become

jealous of our freedom and try to overcome us. Instead of constantly

retreating, we should form coalitions to make a statement. Scare with

information. Strike with the bizarre and create our own reality.



  Once the inevitable is realized, and the underground is revealed, 

like the spacey aliens of the imagination, we mutuate. Confuse and

disappoint. Find friends within the discontent and command the future

with metamorphoses.



Then hide.  We'll keep it to ourselves.



And never listen to a label. "Cyberpunk" is dead.

Long live the next wave.

 

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######## What's the Point #########

An assaultive RaNT against a narrow

minded capitalistic lifestyle #####    

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by Cato



You spend too much time on your artificial things, you waste to 

much time making money, you take too much time spending 

money.  You never stop to question why you do the things you 

do, you don't ask yourself why, you don't attempt to find the 

truth.  Your life is spent first learning to earn money, then 

working to gain money, spending the money, and then death.  



Never even had a point....



Why live life if you do not attempt to understand it.  The 

black box of existence is not meant to be used and taken for 

granted, it is meant to be opened, viewed, torn apart, 

scrambled, demolished, destroyed, examined, and reassembled.  

Too many fools, rich and poor, live life trying to be happy, 

without every stopping to try and figure out how they can be 

happy.  You must stop everything your doing, it is never too 

late.  The fool's life ends, and what did they gain?  Material 

possessions, only to be passed onto others, and what does s/he

take with him? nothing... not much at least.  Regardless of 

your religion, regardless of what you believe, it is 

imperative that nothing be taken for granted, everything must 

be examined [not all things, all things individual... your 

beliefs, morals, attitudes, emotions, etc...]



You must not fall into the trap of undirected movement, you 

must not strive for a goal laid down for you by society, or 

one laid down by anyone but yourself...

...

...

...

Cato

                 

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An-ar-chy n. 1. Absense of government.

2. Lawless confusion and political ###

disorder. 3. General Disorder ########

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By Sluggo -)(- Resist 1994



        All they want is control, total control.  They have no concern

for our msafety, what is our safety to them.  The only reason anything

is made illegal is to satisfy the people, or to protect the government,

but never just for our safety.

        You think that you can hide by getting your social security number

revoked, or by not getting a credit card.  You could go thru tons of

painstaking measures to evade the government, but it doesn't matter.  They

will always be able to find you, and if you let them, they will always be

able to control you.  They have their powerful armies of soldiers armed

with assult rifles, and their police squads in every single state.  These

are their tools to keep you in fear, scared and quiet.  You say that the

easiest thing to do is to just keep your silence, obey laws, and go about

your life.  "Then they won't bother you" you say.  But they still have

control.  "I am an individual", you say.  How can you be an individual when

you are just another one of their puppets, doing as they say, obeying them

like a dog.

        You say that anarchy wouldn't work, that its pointless, just afew

stupid kids trying to be different.  Anarchy is a cry for freedom.  "But we

already have freedom.  We're in America, land of the free!" you say.  We are

not free, the freedom is in your minds.  It's there because they have put it

there.  What better way to have total power then to lead you inot believing

that you are free.  You are never free.  They have created a system in which

most of the people who support their government by working hard to pay taxes

and obeying laws, live a happy comfortable life,  and those who don't havn't

got enough say-so to change anything, for they are the poor, the lower class.

Why listen to them as long as the systems works for you?  So go on with your

comfortable lives, but no matter what they tell you, you are not free!  You

are never free!  Every minute that you don't speak out or do something to

stop them, they gain more and more control over you.  We need no

justification for anarchy, for we only want our freedom, not the bullshit

that they feed you, but real freedom.

        Join us now before you are caught in a crumbling system of 

government and authority.  Otherwise, you can go on thinking that

everything is fine, while they control your mind and lives.

The choice is yours.



Sluggo 1994

Resist -)(-



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An Interview with Operation Mindfuck

(originally to Appear in ToR #3) ###

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ToR interviewed Jason Corley, 'head' of Operation Mindfuck, 

here goes...



Temple of Reason:  What is a mindfuck?



Jason Corley:  Operation Mindfuck was first described by Robert Anton

Wilson in his underground classic _The Illuminatus! Trilogy_.  In it's

simplest form, OM is civilian psychological warfare.  He describes

it much better than I ever could, but I'll give it my best shot.



There are certain people in the world that really deserve worse than

they are getting.  That is, they are prejudiced against new ideas,

good ideas, or both.  Often, these people are in a position to

affect many, many lives.  In George Hayduke's "Revenge" series

(as I like to call them), the attacks on these people are personal

and direct.  There is often no doubt as to the intention of the

attacker, though their identity may remain secret.



To the person involved in OM, this defeats the entire purpose

of attempting to get through to someone.  Think about it: if you

were (are?) an asshole, would you change your ways or your mind

just because someone left a bunch of health hazard signs spread

around and bullion cubes jammed into the faucets?  No.  Once

you figured out the joke, you would put it out of your mind... _or

become a bigger asshole_.



This is not the purpose of Operation Mindfuck.  OM is directed

at changing mental states by introducing confusing and downright

eerie stimuli.  The chosen vehicle for these stimuli is usually the Postal

Service.



Once the stimuli have begun, the subject will progress through

stages of strained amusement, nervousness, paranoia, anger and

frustration, and that can't be all bad, can it?





ToR:  Why did you start this project (operation)?



JC:  I first tried the Mindfuck on a local scholarship organization

that had passed over several friends of mine because of the

color of their skin.  My friends took this lightly, but I did not.

There was no appeal process to go through, so our hands were tied.

Operation Mindfuck was the only choice, and we did it for eight

months, seriously shaking up several who worked at the offices

of the organization and having good, cathartic fun the whole time.



ToR:  What is your MO (modus operandi)?



JC:  The usual method by which the Mindfuck works is this:



First, select your target.  (We'll call him Skippy.)  Do this

carefully.  People high up in government such as Congress and

the President make poor targets.  They receive so much confusing

stimuli from _real crackpots_ that yours will be lost in the

shuffle.



Second, establish connections with people "in" other postmarks.

Nothing will blow an OM faster than a lot of identical postmarks

on letters.  This is where electronic mail becomes extremely useful,

because it can connect people in other states and other countries

very quickly.



Third, create spurious organizations who will send information,

requests and other messages to the target.  There are several

sorts of fictional organizations you can make:

        1. Silly and hostile.  "We of the Traffic Engineers Union Local

#667 demand that you equitably treat the traffic engineers in your

organization or be faced with ten-minute red lights at every

intersection on your drive home.  We are serious about this."

        2. Scary and friendly.  "The American White People's Party

salutes you for your diligence and efforts to maintain the god-

given white male position in our society.  You are now a Grand

High Poobah."

        3. Silly and friendly.  "Do you want to make more money?

Sure, we all do!  That's why the International Counterfeiter's

School is offering seminars for you and your executives, totally

free of charge.  If you are interested, call..."

        4. Eerie.  "Please, you've got to help me.  You're my

last hope.  Do you remember that night in (insert suburb or

nearby town here)?  I mean it, I need to talk to you right away.

You know where to find me."

        5. Incomprehensible.  "The rat flies at midnight, captain.

Talk to Spaldoni, he and flatfoot are eating out in the garden."



Fourth, write the letters, with your people in the other states.

If they don't have the time or the inclination, just send _them_

the letter so that they can get the postmark.



That's it.  From there on out, just keep up the proliferation of

organizations and people as long as you can.



ToR:  How coordinated is your operation, is there a established

group of people who take part in your OM?



JC:  Each OM is different.  Several of my friends in different

states have assisted me in the past.  Any creative person

is a valuable addition to the OM team.  What's more,

it's fun, so even people who haven't been directly offended

by the target can still have fun spreading a little truth.



ToR:  How frequently is their a call for Operation Mindfuck?



JC:  Sad to say, today's world is chock full of targets.  As I said

before, though, the best OMs are local.  Find that special

someone who has insulted, ruined, or displayed incredible stupidity,

they may live up your street or around the world, and do it.

And if one of your friends helping you finds a target in _his_

neighborhood, you should pitch in and lend a hand.  Sounds like a

citizenship film from 5th grade gone horribly awry.





ToR:  How widespread is your project (i.e. regional, national,

global, etc..)?



JC:  By it's nature, the OM needs to be in more than one zip code.

In a practical sense, this means that people from all over the

world can concentrate their efforts on one target.  Whether

you would classify this as a regional project (since only

one target at a time is selected) or a global project

(since the letters come from all over the world), I don't know.

 

ToR:  If someone has a target in mind, but lacks participants in 

other areas, can they contact you for help in their OM?



JC:  Yes, of course, though I can't say how soon I'll get back to them.

I prefer email contact: corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu should do it.



You would be surprised how many potential participants there are

out there, though.  I would say that anyone with any friends at

all shouldn't have too many problems.

  

ToR:  How devoted are you to Discordianism?  Do you have any interest

in more modern pseduocultreligions (such as Subgenius, Kibology, HToMc,

etc)?



JC:  Hah!  Discordianism is the tool of Satan!  I spit on Kibology THUS

pthooi!  The High Temple of Mass Consumption is a convocation of

liars and lunatics!  Follow the one True Truth and that is all

you will need.  If you think I'm going to tell you what it is,

you're sorely mistaken.

 

ToR:  Any closing comments?



JC:  Yes: In the immortal words of Tom Stoppard: "Things have gone

about as far as they can possibly go when things have gotten

about as bad as they can reasonably get."  Know when to stop.

Ideally, you should build the tension and paranoia of the

letters to a fever pitch, perhaps sending two or three a day

(from different zip codes, again.)  And then, suddenly stop.

Clean out the stationery files on your computer, delete

all the records, and stop buying stamps.  It never happened.



This will leave them available to be another target, months

or years later.



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"the religion of no-religion" ###

(One of the pieces which started 

It all) #########################

(name taken from a reply received

against the views presented here) 

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by mr. hands, from a late-night

revelation... refined for print.



When was the last time you thought? weeks.  We are being swept 

away by truth and reality (theirs).  We are suppressed by the

dismal weight of political correctness.



WEyou ARE SUFFOCATING.



they define your reality, BUT NOT IF YOU DEFINE IT FIRST.



they can't allow you to learn and think freely, if you did YOU 

MIGHT REALIZE SOMETHING -THEY- DIDN'T THINK OF.  You posses all 

real knowledge, but it must be realized.

                            

Then it gets more cOMPLEx. The media floods our minds with 

mixed images, throwing us into confusion and submission.  

Killing us with information overload, to much glamour and pride

we forget to look at the purpose.  

TELEVISION FLOODS OUR MINDS WITH MIXED IMAGES,

THROWING US INTO CONFUSION AND SUBMISSION.

KILLING US WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD, COVERING POINT AND IMAGE

WITH GLAMOUR AND PATRIOTISM, WE FORGET[_are_not_allowed_]

TO LOOK AT THE MEANING, AND THE CONSEQUENCES.

         

THE WEAK FALL... BUT YOU MUST [NOT]not[NOT] DRINK FROM THEY'RE 

STREAM[OF INFORMATION].  GENERATE YOUR OWN [simple] SPIRITUALITY AND 

BUILD FROM IT YOUR OWN [complex] REALITY.  DEFINE YOUR OWN 

MORALS AND BELIEFS, DON'T LET THEM FEED YOU THEIRS.  YOU MUST 

THINK BRIGHT AND BURN FREE.  DESTROY THAT WHICH POISONS THE 

STREAM, STRIVE FOR YOUR OWN REALITY AND FIND OTHERS WHO CAME 

TO THE SAME CONCLUSION.  



 create religions, don't follow them .



[CREATE RELIGIONS, DON'T FOLLOW THEM].



 create religions, don't follow them .



[[[And back to reality]]] they suppress your ability to

think.  This isn't a lack of freedom of speech or expression, 

it is a suffocation of individualism at it's root: spirituality, 

reality, consciousness.  FLY FREE FROM THE BONDS OF REALITY 

and drift in the seas of isolated thought.  They toy with your

inner rebelliousness, and feed it false gifts of freedom and

justice for all.  If we are free, why will I be outcast if I

decide to believe something they don't!  It's only freedom if

you stay within their boundaries.



think bright, burn free.

destroy and rebuild, LIFE IS OUTDATED.

deny religion it's foothold on your mind.

YELL OUT YOUR VIEWS. CONVERT EVERYONE.

form sects of like mind.

ISOLATE SUFFOCATION AND DESTROY IT.



above all.



resist

pobox 5356

louisville, ky

40205.



send a SASE or two stamps for more.

As a matter of fact, send as many as you can (stamps and SASEs).



define your own reality.



a re-evolution has begun, and it concerns everything and 

everyone.



. [ r e s i s t ] . M r H a n d s . 1 9 9 3 . [ r e s i s t ] .

           

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TV'S REAL GAME

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by Phineas Narco



[appropriated from the Internet, where this originally 

appeared, and is used with permission of the author. ]



        The recent earthquake media feeding frenzy points out 

something you'll find in almost all media... an almost 

universal focus on drama, tragedy, sex and bad news.  

Everyone complains about too much sex & violence on TV (well 

almost everyone, there seem to be no groups calling for MORE 

sex & violence anyway) and yet the most violent (and sexy) 

shows are the ones that get the highest ratings.  People 

seem to generally like this stuff, otherwise there wouldn't 

be so much of it.  The fascination with tragedy (especially

someone ELSE'S tragedy) certainly is nothing new.  Even back 

in ancient Greece some of the most popular theater (an 

ancient equivalent of television) were tragedies like 

Oedipus Rex.  We seem to have always liked and been 

fascinated by bad news.  

        I think boredom is another reason we like it.  Bad news 

is exciting cuz we can vicariously experience, through 

television, great tragedies and disasters without having to 

actually go through them.  Most of the tragic stories that 

bombard us from television don't happen to most people.  We 

wouldn't really want them to happen to us but we can derive 

the 'benefit' of being vicariously excited by the stories.  

'Reality' for most of us consists of going to work, leisure 

time, sleeping and eating.  'Reality' as television presents 

it, is a very dangerous, disturbing, exciting, and drama-

filled world.  Studies have shown that people who watch a 

lot of TV generally think the world is a much more dangerous 

place than people who do not watch TV (or watch it less).  

>From talking to people in general I get the impression that 

most people are bored and unsatisfied with their jobs (they 

can't really pick and choose too much for them, they take 

what they can get) and television helps them to create the 

illusion that the world (read:  their life) is more 

dangerous (read: exciting) than it is.  Most people, after 

getting home from a boring, unsatisfying,  and/or demeaning 

job will immediately turn on the television to 'unwind' in 

front of it.  Why else (other than the fact that it 

mesmerizes, titillate and excites us) would someone want to 

present the world this way to us?

     The answer, or at least one the answers, is money.  

Television is a money making machine.  Just about everyone 

on there is being paid money to say what they're saying.  

All programming is presented so that commercials (or 

donation acknowledgements) can be shown along with them.  

Generally speaking, you have a lot of programming that 

presents a dreadful world full of fear and horror and every 

so often they break from this for commercials that promise a 

relief from dread (such as sexual frustration, social or 

physical insecurity, class envy) *IF* YOU BUY... <fill in 

the blank>.  

        This is the same reason you get so many anti-sex 

sentiments expressed by the religious right and 'moralistic' 

politicians.  Think about how you've felt right after you've 

had really good sex.  You feel happy, satisfied and content.  

You certainly don't want to run right out and buy something 

do you?  If you can sexually frustrate people by putting out 

the message that 'sex is dirty except sometimes for the 

purpose of procreation' and simultaneously titillate them 

with erotic imagery (just turn on MTV, or any other 

countless programs, anytime for an example) then these same 

people will be much more susceptible to advertising 

campaigns that promise sexual satisfaction as a consequence 

of buying... <fill in the blank>.  And all you have to do is 

open a magazine or turn on the television and you'll find 

endless ads from ad campaigns that are designed this way.  A 

sexually frustrated population is a population of eager 

consumers.  



        I think this is TV's real game.  Question is, people: 

how long are we gonna play it?



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Pre-Manifesto of the

Children of the Pyramid

#######################

by the CotP



A warning.  We are watching your every action.  We are ready to

strike should you offend.  You attempt to suppress us, but we

will survive.  We may have begun as your sorry children, but we

have grown apart with time.  We no longer respect you.  You may

watch us, but we will stare back into your eyes, unforgiving and

unrelenting. We are still unsure of our final goal, but when it

is discovered, you will not stand in our way.



Children of the Pyramid.  

It is only the beginning and life is still young.



[Children of the Pyramid can be contacted by sending them mail

thru Resist (i.e. CotP c/o Resist), we will pass all mail on to

them]



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And now a little paranoia...

-><- #######################

############################

By BOB E (originally posted anonymous)



[appropriated from the Internet, where this originally 

appeared, and is used with permission of the author. ]



On December 31, known cyberspace rights advocate, EFF member and 

author of "Zen and the Art of the Internet", Brendan Kehoe, was involved in 

a car accident. This accident almost cost him his life, and even now he is 

unconscious and will be crippled for life.



        The "accident" is no coincidence. This was an attempt on Kehoe's

life. Earlier that day, a CIA "black operations" squad tampered with his

car severing the brake lines. The assassination attempt was sanctioned by

the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the

National Reconnaissance Organization. Kehoe was a thorn in the side of these

powerful interests, because he was a senior figure in the Electronic Frontier 

Foundation. The EFF has opposed the US Government/International Media 

Corporations attempts to restrict cyberspace, bring the flow of information

under central CFR/Bilderberg/Trilateral/MJ-12 bolshevik control and to

abolish privacy on the network.



        Now that Kehoe has been neutralized, the assassins will be going

after his successor and other advocates of individual freedom and net

privacy. NOBODY IS SAFE UNTIL THEY SUCCEED IN MAKING THE INTERNET A POLICE

STATE. ONE  NET UNDER SURVEILLANCE, WITH MAIL INTERCEPTS AND  WIRETAPS FOR

ALL.



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Now to end this first issue on a positive note,

here is something WE enjoyed... ###############

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[reprinted AS IS (was) with permission of the author. ]



In article <gate.NkRNFc1w165w@ecn.com>, John Blackman <jblack@ecn.com>

wrote:

     

     > Good, I like to "get along".  Will we shoot criminals dead in the

     > streets in this system,  and make the land safe again for our

     > children?



No, but we will be shooting those who like to "get along" and their

children.



-- 

 Mike Chapman   mike@hopper.acs.virginia.edu   ...!virginia!doxy!mike

 "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear

arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in

government."

             - Thomas Jefferson (proposed Virginia Constituion)





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If you have any replies or requests of resist or of Modus 

Operandi send them to:



resist

pobox 5356

louisville ky

40205



Modus Operandi is available hard copy for $2.00 per issue from 

the above address, and contains the above and many more 

additional articles, and of course lots of art and graphics!



Send 'MO' and Resist submissions and replies to the above 

address as well.



Thanks.

Sluggo and Mr. Hands

resist 1994

your wasting away.

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