[UA] Truth and Reconciliation

[Voidmind]

"Truth and Reconciliation
Committee"

is it just me or does that sound like a secret cabal of some sort?


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Craig" <wytchfynder at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: [UA] IMUAC, Alex Abel hiring, SA Cabals


> Greg said:
> >Speaking of the City Swap (is Swop the "non-American" spelling?)
> No, "Swap" is the non-South African spelling :)  Fight ya for it.
>
> >If we set up a standard form, as proposed, the final section could
> >be the IMUAC (In My Unknown Armies Campaign) section.
> Excellent idea. As you rightly point out, this is the kind of resource
that
> gamers in all kinds of settings and systems might enjoy; and the more of
> them that get an exposure to UA while scouting for city tips the better
for
> you guys, hey?
>
> >If he disappears off the scene it probably means Abel hired him away...
> Hey, Abel was probably down here with a big old bargain bucket a few years
> back. Dirty tricks merchants going dirt cheap, same as Eastern Europe in
the
> late 80's. Even Eugene de Kok, head of the "Vlakplaas" assasination/COIN
> unit, is now claiming he's been offered a job co-ordinating landmine
> disposal in the DRC.
>
> For more information on South African assassins, and good South African
> names (no, we don't all sound like the guys in Lethal Weapon 2), check out
> http://www.truth.org.za, the homepage of the Truth and Reconciliation
> Committee. Over the last five years or so it's been these people's job to
> discover and catalogue all the politically motivated human rights
violations
> that were perpetrated (by both 'sides') between 1943 and 1991; once again,
> its been a case of both sides finishing the Nastiest Motherf--ker race
just
> about simultaneously. Sigh.
>
> Chris said:
> >From this I figure the Sleepers would be the the
> >second biggest UA group to feature in SA.
> I dunno, we seem to be pretty good at massacring our own witches. Besides,
> the fact that most witch-hunt victims are poor, rural, and black while
most
> give-a-shit media heads are rich, urban, and white would suggest to me
that
> we're further from a Claws of the Tiger scenario than a highly urbanised
> country. IMHO, Sleeper presence in SA (and, similarly, in other third
world
> countries) would be a single duke sitting on the main urban nexus with his
> finger on a cellphone and keeping an eye on the media. If anything turns
up
> (and, in SA, 90% of all radio and TV are broadcast from one area of one
> city - Auckland Park, in Johannesburg), he or she can stop it getting out
> into the global news stream where it can cause trouble.
>
> Besides, South Africa is remarkable for having it's own, legal, perfectly
> open anti-occult cop unit. I kid you not: the Occult Related Crimes
Division
> was the bane of many a teenage roleplayer in the 80's. Lean, mean,
bearded,
> legally empowered to bust satanist heads. :) Check out
> http://www.saps.org.za/divstat/occult/index.htm ; the local sleeper chief
> probably has the head of the Division in his or her golf foursome.
>
> >The most proliferate would be the Order of St. Cecil
> Aren't we a little short of Roman Catholics? Maybe if Methodists had
> gun-toting exorcists... :)
>
> >The TOSG might probably be three people and a
> >Post Office Box for mail.
> Post Office? How retro. Why not an encrypted satellite-linkup to the TOSG
> databses? If the TOSG were just a bunch of jeep-driving hicks they would't
> be as widespread and successful in the UA world as they are. These are
> obviously capable, if slightly whacky, people: even Randy the Redneck has
a
> Mind of 65. He's no Hawking, but he's no Terreblanche, either.
>
> DC
> Who is going to lock all his doors right now
>
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