At 3:25 PM -0800 5/10/97, Duncan Frissell wrote:
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
I would expect a "cypherpunk riot" to be a little more aimed at cyberspace than real-world suburban neighborhoods. Wouldn't you?
Tim was mostly talking about nuking the District of Columbia. You will note that that is an artificial community filled entirely with politicians and their sycophants. It is sort of like the train that Ayn has blow up in the Rocky Mountain tunnel in Atlas Shrugged. There are no innocents there. (Well a few tourists and Ethiopian immigrants who don't know better but you can't win 'em all.) Note also that he is hoping others will do the deed. He's not volunteering.
There will be a few unfortunate explosions in the world over the next few years so I'm sure Tim is just hoping for a beneficial target selection.
Indeed. Beneficial target selection. Though I think it much more likely that the U.S.-recognized capital of the Zionist entity will be a more likely target to undergo nuclear cleansing. (And even there some innocent civilians, both Muslim and Jew, will surely be hastened to their meetings with Allah, He Whose Name May Not be Expressed (YHWH), or the Great Honey Bear. No accounting for wanting to live in near Ground Zero...religion is a strange thing.) What I think a careful perusal of my comments about D.C. will reveal is that I will not cry for its destruction, and would, all in all, smile a broad grin if I wake up some morning to hear on CNN that D.C. is no more. It's a free country, so I can express such happy thoughts about such corruptions being cleansed. (As for crypto and Cypherpunks, anyone who is honest must admit that strong crypto and Cypherpunks are helping to make this a more plausible scenario. The bullshit that strong crypto is only for "democratic forces" is too naive to even comment on. Strong crypto is to give a handful of people the power to undermine statist authorities and imperial capitals.) --Tim May 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."