# What Is Discordian Watchdog
Today's society has many threats. One of the most dangerous and insidious of
all modern threats is one that the mainstream knows almost nothing about. The
modern Discordian movement is associated with a wide variety of subcultures
that each work in their own way to undermine the values held so high by so
many. It is influenced by anarchists, drug users, the occult, sexual deviants,
computer hackers and self-proclaimed "cultural terrorists."
Discordianism hails itself as, "Either a complicated joke disguised as a
religion or a complicated joke disguised as a religion." Discordianism
surrounds itself with absurdism so as to not be taken seriously by those who
approach it. A simple Yahoo! search for "Discordianism" will result in a small
host of homepages that seem to be little more than nonsense. Don't be fooled by
such a superficial result, however, because the internal network of Discordians
is massive. Its outer verneer of foolishness works so well that while it is one
of the largest of cults in existance, it is not even listed as a cult by any of
the major cult-watching organizations, leaving their activities unchecked.
Discordianism is very decentralized, with many small cells acting independantly
of each other. New recruits are encouraged to form their own cells rather than
join others, but they often join forces for various projects. They participate
collectively in something known as, "Operation Mindf**k" in an effort to erode
all forms of authority and order. It is no surprise that their high saint is a
cockroach.
This site is dedicated to exposing Discordianism for the menace that it is. We
have broken down many of its individual facets into seperate articles so you
can see how multi-sided the threat is and gain a better understanding of what
their agenda is. We also have a "Watchdog" section where we do our best, with
your help, to expose Discordian activities.
We hope you take the time to read some of the articles and join the action
committee to keep updated on breaking news and developments. Together, with the
force and light of attention, we can expose and exterminate this growing
threat.
## Discordianism's Origins
Discordianism reared it's ugly head in the late 50's. It's cofounders, Greg
Hill and Kerry Thornley were a couple of deviants who decided to try and commit
the all-time great hoax; creating a 'religion' that would undermine and erode
the values and structure of western civilization, without ever being taken
seriously enough to be stopped. They began by writing the Principia Discordia,
the Discordian Bible (which was first titled "How the West was Lost") and
disseminating it throughout various counter-culture communities.
They created a variety of lies about what it was and who wrote it, attempting
to fuel rumors and stir people's curiosity. By 1970 the Principia had gone from
total obscurity to 'legitimate' cult status. It was then quoted often in the
novel 'Illuminatus!' by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson which was published
in the mid 70's. Discordian cells, calling themselves 'cabals' began springing
up all over. And the inner core, who had been establishing itself and it's
agenda over the previous 10 years finally had its huge pool of resources to
work with.
From the begining, Discordians have done their best to get people in or close
to important offices. Thornley was a close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and a
member of a covert Marxist organization in the Marines. After the Kennedy
assasination District Attorny Jim Garrison discovered conclusive evidence that
linked Thornley to the assasination, yet he was never charged. Ironically,(?)
the first copies of the Principia Discordia were printed off on Garrison's
photocopier at the D.A.'s office by an assistant of Garrison's.
And so it has grown, surrounded by lies, crime and trechery every step of the
way.
## Cultural Threats
### Anarchist Influence
Discordianism's prime directive is to undermine all forms of authority.
Consequently many Discordians consider themselves to be some form of anarchist.
Anarchism is a socio-political philosophy promoting free-for-all, self-serving
behavior. It is the lowest form of political and social ignorance.
Even counter-cultural icons such as Naom Chomski have acknowledged the evidence
showing the tendancies of anarchists towards criminal behavior. Many terrorists
have been anarchists. Despite the evidence, these people see themselves as
revolutionaries, actively trying to destroy the state - not to create something
better, but out of spite.
Anarchy, on the whole, doesn't get very far because of its inherent
'non-cooperative' attitude, but Discordianism focuses on resistance to
authority, which is more immediately available than any collective
self-servitude. Most anarchists are limited to acts of vandalism, but
Discordianism gives anrchists many more outlets, ranging from social to occult.
The threat is compounded when anarchists get the cooperation of hackers (which
is another Discordian targeted demographic)
Most Discordian strikes are based on Von Neumans approach to game theory -
meaning they are random acts, not directly related to any larger goal. This
approach makes it theoretically impossible to predict where and how they will
strike next. While the targets may be random, the acts themselves are usualy
ritualistic enactments, (done to show how clever they are - this method of
structuring attacks is also common in serial killers and other psychopaths)
The Discordian Society pulls this distructive political ideology into its fold
and feeds off it, establishing an active element for their haenous acts.
### Hacker Danger
One of the areas where Discordians are heavily concentrated and recruit with
vigor is the computer industry. With computer technology becoming such an
integral part of our society the Discordian presence becomes even more
dangerous.
Tech professionals have skills that can perplex the average person. And it's
not too hard to find and play on the emotions of those professionals who feel
as though they are smarter than the average person. In this way Discordians
court those in the tech field.
Discordians use technology to perpetuate their agenda in many ways. They use
the internet to sow their disinormation to would-be members. They have
operatives plants bugs and hack programs to disrupt the organizations that use
them. They recruit to ensure that they have a large knowledge base to work with
and they let the activists direct their actions.
It should be noted that this type of activity occurs most when the economy is
good and unemployment is low. When jobs become easy to find many tech people
don't mind playing sleeper agent for a bit while they gain on-the-job training.
They then perpetrate their crimes and simply move on if they get fired. In
doing so they undermine the system the most when it is benefitting the most
people.
The more Discordians use technology to spread their message of anti-authority
and anti-structure, the more they tend to pick up technology professionals. It
becomes imperitive in the struggle against them that the average person becomes
more informed about the treat of these self-proclaimed 'hactivists.'
## Spiritual Threats
### Religious Threat
The prime-directive of Discordianism is to resist authority. It follows then
that the authority of a higher power and religion in general is to be
undermined. The undermining of religion is in fact one of Discordianism's main
objectives.
Discordians see those who follow any particular religion as sheeps; people who
mindlessly adhere to rules out of fear and self-delusion. They see it as their
duty to disrupt the faith of others using any method necessary. Only when a
person's faith is broken and hope is lost are they considered 'liberated.'
The irony here is that they follow the rules of their own religion to a high
degree. They claim, however, that they are simply 'role-playing' and not really
adhering to the dogma of their own system, but the fact remains that they
commit the actions required, no matter how they rationalize it.
Discordianism stems from the most diabolical form of Bhuddhism. Any religion
can be distorted to fit the purposes of deviant practicioners, and whithin
Buddhism there exists a radical zen tradition. This tradition has manifested in
western civilization as Discordiansim. The goal in this tradition is to become
you own god, and the undermining of established religion becomes mandatory.
It follows that they preach a 'relativistic' morality. Any action, no matter
how deviant, becomes ok if it's in the right 'context.' It also follows that
they have the justification to perform any hainous act that perpetuates their
own agenda, because the context is right...
## Community Watchdog Section
Name : Eva Geblumenkraft
Location : Detroit, MI
Date : 3-21-02
Report : We've had someone around here who has been replacing the tape in
some of the videotapes in our library with porn. It must be one of those filthy
Discordians! They're giving our town a bad name!
Name : David Manning
Location : Ridgefield, Connecticut
Date : March 20, 2002
Report : While dregging a stretch of the Housatonic River, authorities
discovered a number of bizarre items that have been traced to the Discordian
activity known as "Sink." No arrests have been made, but a number of local
active Discordians have been detained for
Name : Stephen MacNeil
Location : Vermont
Date : 03/01/02
Report : For those of you that do not know what is going on in Vermont right
now, there is upheaval about queer's rights to get benefits from their friends
and their butt buddies without getting married. I support an organization
called Take Back Vermont and it
Relevant URL 1 :
http://www.tbvt.org/
Relevant URL 2 :
http://www.tbvt.org/children.htm
Name : Max Boolean
Location : Dayton, OH
Date : 2.15.02
Report : there's a fellow around here who keeps posting in local BBSs with
really disturbing ideas (and I have the feeling that he's the one responsible
for some rather grotesque pamphlets left in books at the library, too)...
sounds like one of those godforsaken
Relevant URL 1 :
http://transmothra.com
Relevant URL 2 :
Your Name : Randy Schure
Location : Iowa city, Iowa
Date : Dec 2001
Report : I just want to say 'Thank You!' for the service you are providing
with your website. Iowa City is a college town with all kinds of people -- but
I have seen these Discordians actually performing public rituals and ceremonies
downtown. I think most p
## News Article Archive
### The Hidden Threat
In the course of the war on terrorism, a new menace has come to light. This
menace is a shadowy, formless anarchoterrorist cult known as Discordianism.
This cult contaminates the information superhighway and its tentacles reach
everywhere.
Below are some facts about this organization, its methods and motives.
FACT: One of the founders of Discordianism was involved in the Kennedy
assassination.
Discordianism was cofounded by Kerry Thornley. Thornley was a close friend of
Lee Harvey Oswald and was involved in a covert Marxist group in the Marines.
After the assassination of President Kennedy, District Attorney Jim Garrison
uncovered evidence conclusively linking Thornley to the conspiracy.
FACT: Discordianism preaches drug use, terrorism, sexual depravity, and the
overthrow of all governments.
The Discordian "Bible", the Principia Discordia, contains incitements to plant
marijuana and disobey laws and advocacy of pornography and blasphemy. Other
materials are even more explicit and extreme. THESE MATERIALS ARE DISTRIBUTED
WIDELY BY THE MEMBERS OF THIS CULT.
Discordians are prominent in drug advocate, anarchist, communist and militia
movements. They will be found in any movement which opposes and hastens the
destruction of society.
It is clear that the Discordians have no respect for the values of society
which they seek to destroy. And if society does not see the threat and react to
it swiftly they may succeed.
FACT: Discordians are entrenched on the Internet and use it to disseminate
their propaganda.
Discordianism is a cancer which has spread widely all over the Information
Superhighway. There are Discordian Netscape pages advocating sexual perversion,
anarchism and drug abuse. There are even newsgroups created and run by
Discordian agents. The Net, which is decentralized and hard to police, is a
perfect haven for these rats.
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE:
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS
Write to your local Congressman and demand they do something about this
terrible scourge upon society, talk to your Minister about the threat and see
what he can do. How can we ever defeat our enemies abroad if we allow them to
dwell among us!
PRESSURE ONLINE SERVICES TO SHUT DOWN KNOWN DISCORDIAN SITES.
There are web pages all over the net run by Discordian cells, disseminating
their poisonous propaganda to children. Some of these are at universities, some
at commercial service providers. Letters and phone calls to the sites,
describing the material and explaining why it is unacceptable would get it
pulled. If the site refuses to comply, it may be sympathetic to or controlled
by the Discordian group. If that is so, contact the site which provides it
access and complain.
EDUCATE OTHERS ABOUT THE MENACE
Copy and spread this alert. Transmit it to others. Tell others about the menace
and the very real threat of Discordianism. The more people know, the fewer will
be seduced by their lies.
PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN
If your children have access to the net, monitor what they access. Do not allow
them to access Discordian materials. If they have been contacted by agents of
Discordianism, determine these agents' identities and call the police.
ACT LOCALLY
Keep your eyes open -- the Discordians could be where you are! Look around you.
If you notice Discordian activity, in your community, your workplace, your
online service or elsewhere, keep an eye on it and alert others. Report any
illegal activity to law enforcement authorities. Only you can stop this threat!
DISSEMINATE THIS ALERT WIDELY. SEND COPIES TO ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS. IT'S UP
TO YOU! ACT NOW!
Allyson Smith is a freelance investigative reporter for San Diego News Notes.
© 2002 AgapePress all rights reserved.
### Spell was cast before film began: Kids ready for 'Harry Potter' got xxx-rated flub
- Monday December 31 03:03 AM EST
- By Gina Kimbo, Seattle Times staff reporter
The Perrillo family expected some cinematic surprises as they settled in to
watch Harry Potter (news - web sites) zip around on a magic broomstick and
challenge the evil "He who shall not be named."
But as the lights dimmed, they got a shock they never bargained for: The
sexually explicit preview of an xxx-rated movie.
Sharie Perrillo, her husband and two children went to Friday's 12:30 p.m.
showing of the PG-rated "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" at the Norton
General Cinema in downtown Seattle. They were unsettled by the R-rated movie
previews that began airing.
But nothing prepared them for when, instead of Harry and his wizard buddies,
they saw two full minutes of pornographic footage that had apparently been
spliced into the trailer reel.
The scene was a teenage girl in bed with a vibrator.
"There was a flash on the screen that said, 'Eris Incantations' then that girl
in her bed." said Sharie Perrillo, of West Seattle. "After that I was out of
the movie theater with my kids."
Perrillo quickly ushered her children out of the theater. She said the crowd of
mostly parents and children followed.
An employee was notified, and theater-goers were asked to wait while the
trailer reel was removed and the feature movie was put in place. The Perrillos
and others settled back in to enjoy the tamer wonders of "Harry Potter" and
were given free movie passes for their trouble. A theater employee who did not
want to be named said, "This is really wierd. There's no way someone could pull
off a prank like this."
But Perrillo said the damage was already done. When the family got home, her
9-year-old daughter kept asking questions about what she had seen.
"I just don't know what to answer," said Perrillo. "I don't want her to lose
that innocence that she has the right to have."
"I can't understand how something like that can happen," said Perrillo, adding
that she will not return to the theaters.
### Target Stores Sabatoged For Easter
- Thursday April 23, 6:29 pm Eastern Time
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Target Corp. [NYSE:TGT - news]was sabotaged over Easter
weekend, according to Vice President Morris Codwell, costing the Superstore
several thousands of dollars in damages. "Both the local authorities in several
different cities and the F.B.I. are looking into the incident," says Codwell.
Sometime early Saturday morning, the assailants left several plastic Easter
eggs lying around conspicuously in the stores. Some of the eggs contained
cryptic messages, such as "We are watching you" and "Hail Eris," but others
contained barcode stickers, with instructions to place them over regular
merchandise barcodes to receive a 'special Easter savings.' When the barcodes
where subsequently scanned the cash registers were rendered inoperable.
"Somebody had to know enough about our registers to know how to break them,"
Codwell says. "This was a very well-planned and deliberate attack." F.B.I.
agent Roland Serling says that they believe the act was committed by a group of
anarchists who call themselves "Discordians." According to Serling, "They claim
to worship Eris Discordia, the goddess of chaos."
When asked about the customers who put the stickers on the merchandise Codwell
said that the average customer could hardly be blamed for participating in what
they thought was a legitimate store promotion however "misguided" their actions
were.
In all, 23 stores in 10 states were hit with a total of 42 registers being
broken and at least 9 databases being corrupted. "The most aggravating part of
this whole thing," said Codwell "is that they appear to have used the Easter
eggs that we sell in the stores to perpetrate their crimes."
### 'Honest, Mom, I Don't Even Know What Those (@)#$%& Words Mean'
- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- June 17, 2001
- By ROBERT WIZNIK
- Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Computers are revolutionizing education, sometimes in surprising ways. Now
there's software that can teach kids how to cuss like a drunken sailor.
The program, called "Secret Writer's Society," is meant to help seven to
nine-year-olds learn to write by, among other things, reciting their
compositions back to them in a computer-generated voice. But a strange bug
sometimes causes the program to do some creative rewriting and vocalize streams
of obscenities and heresies before reciting the child's own words. One parent
who tested the program for StarKids, an educational-software review Web site
(
http://www.starkids.com/), describes the foul language as the sort heard in a
"slasher flick." Another says "It's like something from some devil movie."
Kari Stibbs, a marketing manager for Matsushita Inc.'s Panasonic Interactive
Media, which makes the product, acknowledges the cursing problem, and says
they're working on extracting the bug. "We've had several reports of it at this
point." she says. "The person believed responsible for it has been let go. He
was involved with a neferious group of people known as 'Discordians' who
consider themselves cultural revolutionaries or some such nonsense."
Andrew Siamel, StarKids editor in chief, said the bug has wreaked havoc with
their public relations. "Many parents get plenty upset about propaganda telling
7 and 8 year olds that 'God's name is Eris, and he's a girl.' and the
profanity's even worse, I wouldn't want a 15-year-old exposed to some of the
language this thing has."
"It's a bad thing if some child is sitting at the computer and all of a sudden
it starts swearing at you," Ms. Stibbs concedes. When alerted by StarKids,
Panasonic promised to replace flawed copies of the program with debugged
versions. But Mr. Siamel thinks the company should recall the product and
publicize its flaws to protect kids where it might still be in use.
Ms. Stibbs says copies of the program that haven't been shipped "will be
pulled," but that there's "no way to contact every person who's purchased it."
Still, the company says it will set up an 800 number so that consumers with the
flawed version can request a free, nonprofane replacement.
Copyright © 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
### Man has unscheduled handshake with the president... again
- Wednesday January 24, 2001 11:25 AM ET
Just after President Bush was inaugurated, a man without any security clearance
bypassed three security checkpoints and shook Bush's hand - an escapade he
pulled at President Clinton's second inauguration, authorities said.
The man's success at gaining access to Bush startled Secret Service agents and
U.S. Capitol Police officers because security was intensified in preparation
for large groups of protesters.
Capitol Police refused to give details except to say that the trespasser was
unarmed and had been taken through a metal detector.
"There was an individual who had an unscheduled handshake with the President,"
Lt. Dan Nichols, a spokesman for the Capitol Police, said Tuesday night. "It
was noticed immediately and he was removed."
The Washington Post, which first reported the incident in its Wednesday
editions, said the man had a standing-room ticket for Saturday's swearing-in
ceremony but somehow made it into the VIP section and into the Capitol.
The man who shook Bush's hand, was the same man who bypassed security after
Clinton's inauguration in 1997, a police official said.
Nichols said the incident will be considered during a review of security that
occurs after every inauguration.
The man was never under arrest.
"He did not break any laws and therefore, there was no basis to arrest him,"
Nichols said. "There is no law against shaking the president's hand."
The trespasser's exploits during the Clinton inauguration had not been
forgotten by those planning security for Bush. Sources revealed that the man is
a member of a loose organization known as 'Discordians' who seem bent on
committing disruptive acts that don't technically break any law. He was a
constant subject of discussion by security officials before Bush's
inauguration, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Secret Service officials even showed a videotape of the man shaking Clinton's
hand to those handling security on Inauguration Day, the official said. The
tape shows the trespasser approaching someone who had clearance to be near
Clinton. The trespasser struck up a conversation with the cleared individual
and shadowed him as he walked past a security checkpoint.
