'I need a butt-shine. Wax my a**, scrub my balls. The Cow has risen.' Bizarre poem Beto O'Rourke wrote to a COW when he was a computer hacker who posted fiction about killing children is revealed
Democrats' newest presidential was member of hacker group called Cult of the Dead Cow and called himself Psychedelic Warlord, he will admit in a new book
He posted on 'bulletin boards' - primitive equivalents of websites - and has left some of his writing intact
One story when he was 15 described running over two children in the street and said: 'I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.'
Also wrote a poem called ''The Song of the Cow' in 1988 which said: 'Wax my a**, Scrub my balls.' Scroll down to read it in full
Group stole credit card and calling card details to avoid running up large phone bills on modems which would have been a potential felony at the time
O'Rourke admitted he pilfered long-distance service 'so I wouldn't run up the phone bill' but did not admit whether that involved credit or phone card fraud
Democrat says in new book that Cult of the Dead Cow taught him how to be 'apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you're doing it'
Group also posted pirated software, tools to hack Windows computers and distributed an essay called 'Sex with Satan'
Members later tried to keep O'Rourke's hacking past secret when he ran for El Paso city council
Beto O'Rourke was a teenage computer hacker who posted fiction about killing children, it was revealed Friday - a day after he threw himself into the Democratic president race.
O'Rourke acknowledged in an exclusive interview with the author of a forthcoming book that he belonged to the Cult of the Dead Cow, the oldest group of computer hackers in U.S. history.
Members of the hugely influential CDC, jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse, have protected his secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability.
But O'Rourke, 46, said in an interview conducted during his failed run for the Senate last year that he was a member from the age of 15 until the age of 18, and pilfered long-distance phone service to fund his primitive family computer's connection to the 'bulletin boards' - predecessors of websites - on which the group existed.
He did not say if he engaged in credit card or calling card fraud, which other members of the group say they used to pay for their connections, and which could have been a felony if he had been caught.
And O'Rourke was revealed to have posted fiction during his time as a hacker, including a short story written from the point of view of a driver who intentionally killed two children because they were 'happy.'
He also posted poetry dedicated to 'The Cow' which said: 'Thrust your hooves up my analytic passage, Enjoy my fruits.'
In the interview O'Rourke said being part of the CDC shaped his values in later life.
Inspiration? Beto O'Rourke's campaign badges and buttons appear similar to the Cult of the Dead Cow's logo
Founder: Kevin Wheeler, known online as Swamp Rat, was one of the founders of the Cult of the Dead Cow. He and O'Rourke connected on a bulletin board. O'Rourle says he gave up when he enrolled at Columbia University, New York, but Wheeler remains part of the world and in 1999 was seen releasing 'Back Orifice 2000', a hacking tool, at a Les Vegas hacking convention
In a series of interviews, CDC members acknowledged O'Rourke as one of their own, ending a secret which they had agreed to keep to avoid damaging his career when he became a politician in 2005.
In all, more than a dozen members of the group agreed to be named for the first time in a book about the hacking group by this reporter that is scheduled to be published in June by Public Affairs. O'Rourke was interviewed early in his run for the Senate.
O'Rourke's membership in the group - notorious for releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running Microsoft's Windows, and also known for inventing the word 'hacktivism' to describe human-rights-driven security work - could explain his approach to politics better than anything on his resume.
His background in hacking circles has repeatedly informed his strategy as he explored and subverted established procedures in technology, the media and governmen
..as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy…This happiness was mine by right. As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two… I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.'
Beto O'Rourke aged 15
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