At 9:57 AM -0700 6/30/97, Bill Frantz wrote:
To get elected in America, you have to give the voters someone to hate. Back 10 years ago, it was criminals, then it was wetbacks, now it is pornographers (and tobacco companies). Hate is just so much better as a motivating force than good government (whatever "good" is).
Yes, why don't we just finish the process and institute the "Hate Minute"? One day it could be Gunter Grass, the next it could be Kenneth Starr, and so on. Each day BB Bill could lead us in a minute of hate, carried live on CNN, MSNBC, and the Internet. Back to the war with Oceania... --Winston Smith There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."