Terrorists for Truth (TfT) is or was an independent group that promotes Operation Mindfuck, jakes, Guerilla Theatre, and Poetic Terrorism. It began in California in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Origin
The group was begun by five people, primarily The Gamemaster of Florin aka Michael Arthur Quinn. Each of them used a "terrorist" name which was sometimes tongue in cheek. The five founders' terrorist names (and other aliases) were Hassan i Sabbah X (The Gamemaster of Florin, The Midget, Michael Arthur Quinn), Chao tse-tung ("Freak" NG, later known as Chao zedong), Alien Invasion (Alien), Thornbeak (Porkie Pigsties, Gypsie Skripto), and Mad Marian aka Mad Maxine (Motel Maid Marian, Marian Winkleman). This group was either inspired by or inspired POE in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (SCT). Like POE, TfT announced itself once, then disappeared. Perhaps its best known effort was creating the original H2O Jake to convince people that Dihydrogen Monoxide was poisonous.
Members were chosen for their creativity, their willingness to challenge the establishment, and for their diversity. The Gamemaster was a black intersexual; Freak an asian male; Alien a male "alien;" Gypsie a caucasian female; and Marian a "Jewish Amerind Princess." The group was thus said to represent everyone.
POE
While POE in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy was a physically destructive terrorist group, TfT emphasized "mind reconstruction" and "mental terrorism." They believed that unexpected events, especially frightening ones, could shock a placid person into individual and creative thought.
While it's unknown if TfT preceded POE or visa versa, the POE leaders have parallels in Tft. POE's leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stuart was largely based on Sabbah, perhaps more so than was The Midget. (Wilson subtly linked The Mdget and Sabbah with several references in SCT including the beginning of the chapter "The Hidden Variable" which begins with "Markoff Chaney (The Midget) was a prime candidate for POE but, due to quantum wave probability, his orbit never intersected theirs.") Both Sabbah and Stuart are black geniuses, revolutionaries, part of the New Left, and from troubled homes.
POE leader Sylvia Goldfarb, like Marian, is an extremely intelligent female, Jewish (although Marian was also Amerind), active in the feminist National Organization for Women (NOW), and living a non-heterosexual lifestyle.
It is possible that the third founding member of POE, Mountbatten Babbit, was inspired by Chao tse-tung, but not enough is known about Chao to be certain.
Other groups
- Quinn, who was a model for The Midget in The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, also began W.E.T.D.I.A.P.E.R.S.
- Freak NG created or co-created Eta Mu Pi.
- Alien was co-founder and founding vice president of the original Ek-sen-triks Cluborguild.
- Gypsie Skripto became the high priestess of a pagan coven.
- Marian was a founding member of the Merry Archers of Paganus Grimlove.
Some TfT members were apparently among the creators of Anonymous Hackers.