"Bruce Sterling - Sneaking For Jesus 2001 (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sterling Bruce)

Meanwhile, evil liberal civil-libertarians tattoo everyone's right hand
with the scanner-code of the Beast 666. It just goes on and on!

The yummiest item in the whole stew, however, is the identity of the
book's hero, one Jeff Wells. Jeff's a computer hacker. A genius
hacker for Christ. Somewhat against his will and entirely without any
evil intent, Jeff was recruited to design and build the gigantic
Data-Net financial network, which the Illuminati secular one-worlders
then use to consolidate power, and to pursue and harass innocent
Christian activists. When Jeff discovers that the feds are using his
handiwork to round up Baptists and ship them by the trainload to dismal
gulags in Arizona, he drops out of the system, goes deep underground,
and joins the Christian revolutionary right.

With the moral guidance of a saintly televangelist, Jeff, using his
powerful and extremely illegal com

puter-intrusion skills, simply chops
up Data-Net like a cook deboning a chicken. In defence of his Savior,
Jeff basically overthrows the US Government by digital force and
violence. He defrauds the government of billions of dollars. He
creates thousands of false identities. He deliberately snarls train
traffic and airport traffic. He spies on high government officials,
tracking their every move. The Pentagon, the Secret Service and the
FBI are all rendered into helpless fools through Jeff's skillful
tapping of a keyboard. It's like a Smash-the-State Yippie
phone-phreak's wet-dream -- and yet it's all done in defense of
family-values.

One shuts Mr. Burkett's book regretfully and with a skull-tingling
sensation of genuine mind-expansion.

But let's now leave ILLUMINATI for a look at somewhat more actual and
far more commercially successful Yippie phone-phreak wet-dream, the
film (and novel) SNEAKERS. As it happens, the movie tie-in novel
SNEAKERS (by one "Dewey Gram," a name that sounds rather suspicious)
is somewhat uninspired and pedestrian (especially in comparison to

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ILLUMINATI). The book has a slightly more graphic sexual-voyeur
sequence than the movie does, and some mildly interesting additional
background about the characters. The SNEAKERS novel seems to have
been cooked-up from an earlier screenplay than the shooting-script.
You won't miss much by skipping it entirely.

The sinister Liberal Cultural Elite (and their vile Illuminati
puppet-masters) must take great satisfaction in comparing the audience
for a Hollywood blockbuster like SNEAKERS with the relatively tiny