How Phreaks, Anarchist, The Kkk, And Swp Compare To Big Brother From 1984 Essay, Research Paper

Many organizations today are considered bad or “evil”.

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan, The Anarchy Organization, Supreme White

Power, which are Skinheads and Neo-Nazis, and Phreaks are a few of

these groups. These groups all have one thing in common……they

somehow break the law. The Ku Klux Klan “terrorized public officials in

efforts to drive them from office and blacks in general to prevent them from

voting and holding office.” ( Microsoft Encarta 1995 Ku Klux Klan)

The “Klansmen” flogged, mutilated, or murdered their victims. Supreme

White Power (SWP) or “skin heads” are somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan.

The skin head groups are more local rather than the Ku Klux Klan, who all

have one leader. The Anarchy Organization is totally against

government. Their main idea is to be free. The reason why this

organization is considered “evil” is because of bombings and activities like

that from certain anarchists. Phreaks are hackers, but they don’t just

specialize in computers. They are also into phones and electronic things

that they can rip off. As you will later see, this organization and our

government strongly resemble 1984’s government and the Brotherhood.

The Ku Klux Klan people haven’t gotten out of the idea

the black people and other foreigners are evil, which they call, “alien

outsiders”. These “outsiders” are “all non-Protestants, aliens, liberals,

trade unionists and striking workers”. (Microsoft Encarta 1995) Their

traditions have been pasted down from generation to generation since

1865. Lately, Klansmen have been running for office and other

government jobs like that. Although the Ku Klux Klan and the

Brotherhood have nothing really outstandingly in common, they are both

considered evil by their society which are the U.S. government and the

Party. The Ku Klux Klan is not fighting to make things better, nor are

they doing anything constructive. In the Brotherhood they are out to

make life better for all.

The Anarchy Organization’s purpose, according to

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, is to abolish “established

order using violent ways”. Basically anarchists are out to overthrow any

law. In The Anarchy Organization’s page they summarize what they are

after and what they want. They call themselves “artists fighting infections

f capital plague-machine society and the assault of free minds.” (The

Anarchy Organization, page one) “TAO fights now for our lives, our

minds, and our planet.” (The Anarchy Organization, page two.)

These people are not doing anything now to fight for their cause. Like in

1984, if these people surface, government will quickly shut these

people up and try and cover up. Anarchists have begun to think and

have chosen to rebel against their government. Perhaps everyone else

has been brainwashed into thinking that government is the best.

Members of the Brotherhood think, remember, and know something is

not right with their society. Just like the anarchists see all the laws being

broken and rights violated. there is a new bill that simply wants to have

censorship on the internet so you cannot access anything “bad”. This

violates the 1st Amendment which gives us the right to freedom of speech

and freedom of the press, but this bill some how even made it to court.

In 1984, people against The Party saw that the quantity of food

distributed was becoming less. The Party stated, while talking about

chocolate, something that now they’ll be giving more chocolate to each

family. This was obviously a lie when last week the quantity was more.

In the Brotherhood they believed in truth and letting people live life as

they want to live it, just like The Anarchy Organization.

Supreme White Power has over 30 different major

organizations. “The members of these groups have one big thing in

common: they hate members of racial, ethnic or religious groups that

are not the same as their own.” (White supremacy on the rise by Mike

Harpin) The main people targeted of hatred and violence are Jewish

people, Hispanics, Asians, blacks and people who are Catholic

Christians. The more well-known groups are the Ku Klux Klan, the

Neo-Nazis, and the Skinheads. The reason why the Ku Klux Klan is

separate from the Neo-Nazis and the Skinheads is because the Ku Klux

Klan’s hatred and violence is aimed more towards blacks rather than the

Neo-Nazis and the Skinheads, whose hatred is aimed more towards the

Jewish people. The Neo-Nazis, sometimes called White Aryan

Resistance, is a group that follows under Adolph Hitler’s philosophies,

which targets Jewish people. Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads

do not join because they believe in the cause. Many join the “gang” to

feel apart of something because they feel that they do not belong anywhere

else. “Then others join because they like looking “different”.” (White

Supremacy on the Rise. by Mike Harpin) You can spot a Skinhead by

their style. This style or “uniform” includes fatigues, flight jackets,

suspenders that hang down, and steel-toed boots or Doc Martens. The

most obvious thing about one is their shaved head. These people stand

out purposely. Unlike the Brotherhood, they don’t have to be afraid of

government. The thing these Skinheads or Neo-Nazis fear are racial

groups that will and do fight back. The Skinheads say they aren’t afraid

of anything, but when you have groups and tons of people out to kill you,

you should be afraid. In 1984, the Brotherhood could not march

around and protest like some Skinheads do. The Skinheads and

Neo-Nazis do not target government like the Brotherhood does. Either

way, they are both hated by society. It seems reasonable to hate the

White Supremacy groups because all they do is cause trouble, anger,

and pain, which most people do not want. In the Brotherhood they

believe in letting people choose what religion or what they want to do with

their life.

Phreaks are hackers. They are a group of people from

around the world that love to hack others computers and systems. Many

people believe that these “hackers” only cause trouble and hurt people.

When in fact many Phreaks go around and improve systems. They write

programs and all sorts of things for the public to enjoy. They may break

into bank’s computers, but they do not always take something. One

Phreak was bragging about how he got into a bank’s computer and saw “all

those numbers”. When he was asked, “how much did you take?”. His reply

was, ” none”. Phreaks get satisfaction from knowing they can beat

security. Every year different groups of Phreaks get together and hack the

world. A couple times they played with NASA’s temperature control, air

port’s times, and power plant’s settings. No harm was caused though.

The reason why powerful Phreaks are hated by government is because they

can control a lot of their computers and systems. Many of the popular

Phreaks have connections into agencies like the Secret Service, NSA,

etc. and can get all sorts of information. The Secret Service has been

making threats to these people and magazines. Magazines like “Phrack”

and “2600″, are constantly being harassed because of what they put in

their magazine. One of the writers for Phrack, Emmanuel Goldstein,

was getting phone calls from anonymous people, threating to shut them

down because they know too much or it could be because of their ideas

about government. Their ideas are almost the same as the anarchists.

In many phreak’s home pages, they have a link to various anarchy pages.

The difference between the phreaks and the anarchist is that many phreaks

like to play around with government things, instead of trying to get rid of

government. They need something to hack into that would be a

challenge. The threats of shutting down the magazines or anything of

that sort directly violates the 1st Amendment. The freedom of speech.

Emmanuel Goldstein is not this person’s real name. The name

coincidentally comes from 1984. Its obvious that Emmanuel Goldstein

thinks of himself as the Emmanuel Goldstein of 1984. In 1984, the

author pushes you towards believing that the Party members are the bad

guys and the Brotherhood as the good guys. If you thought of the

Brotherhood as good, why would the Phreaks be bad? Phreaks and

anarchists see society and government the same way, but Phreaks only go

half way with government. They want to get rid of many laws, but they

do not want “chaos”. A difference between the Brotherhood and Phreaks

is the way they are treated. If someone was caught being a part of the

Brotherhood, the Party would make a big deal about it. The way Phreaks

are treated is: “What?” The Phreaks that do cause trouble are locked

away quietly. This might be done because our government has

something to hide. And when the police say they have caught the best

hacker in the world, its to make them look good. There is no best

hacker because there are many specialties and the best hackers do not get

caught. Both organizations expose how bad and what our government is

doing. The simple presence of the Brotherhood says that many people

see a problem in their government. Some Phreaks have posted secret

messages, de-coded on the internet, showing what is happening in

different government agencies. Phreaks have not opened security to the

public, they were allowed to by their rights.

Some of these groups are considered bad, but the

choice is up to the individual. Our government seems to be moving

towards a 1984 society, where you are not free at all. The Bill of Rights

is here to protect us from someone higher hurting us, but the US

Government seems to violate these rights. We the people should not let

this happen. 1984 does a good job illustrating what might happen if we

do not stop this bill passing madness. We have already begun to see the

slow process of government taking over. It’s just a warning to us all.

Bibliography

1. “Ku Klux Klan,” Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994

Microsoft Corporation Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wangnails Corporation.

2. White Supremacy on the Rise. By Mike Harpin

3. Traditional Skinheads vs. Non-Traditional Skinheads. By

Anonymous

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