-- James A. Donald:
If the anthrax attack is internal, then [the FBI] are in charge and they get to spy on all us right wing extremist hate groups.
On 9 Nov 2001, at 11:30, measl@mfn.org wrote:
I may be a hate group, but I am NOT a _right wing_ hate group.
For the mentally slow, I guess I will have to explain my little joke, thereby spoiling it. Obviously, members of right wing extremist hate groups do not think of themselves or their organizations as right wing, but as centrist or moderate left, nor as hate groups, but as nationalist. Therefore if someone identifies himself as a member of a right wing extremist hate group, this is intended sarcastically. In context, the implication was that the FBI would call cypherpunks a right wing extremist hate group to justify RICO or sedition charges, and the press would report the matter accordingly. Similarly, if someone thinks that Lenin should have gone right ahead with war communism, that Stalin was too soft on the kulaks, and that Pol Pot's economic program would have worked just fine if it had not been sabotaged by the CIA, he does not call himself, or think of himself, as a communist totalitarian extremist, but as an advocate of economic democracy. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9Ik2FjgCHZhqotwiWNE+RxVjwUayQJtrS5Si17gJ 4C3BriA+Vwcc4ajRZlPcSCwZpi9Q3VJ9E5Bp3K844