Bob Hettinga writes in reply ('>'):
If Tim believes that a judge has committed a capital crime, I want to hear about it.
Right. The judge made a decision that Tim thinks the judge should die for.
My point is not the fact of whether the judge committed an "executable" offense, or didn't. It was that Tim made a thinly veiled threat. To wit, Tim implied that the Judge should be executed for his court decision. I'm saying that guys with associates' degrees in "criminal justice" would love any reason to make Tim a new wife of one of their permanent jail residents after a, um, crack, like that, and Tim, more to the um, point, seems to, um, up the ante, by sauntering down to the the jailhouse and pissing on the guard's shoes.
Metaphorically, of course. :-).
I think you're making a mountain out of a metaphor, here, Bob (sound of language processor set on "puree"...) In what seems to worry you about Tim, I see him just saying that if things he thinks may come to pass, do come to pass, he isn't going to go "quietly into that goodnight". I suspect his view of what is coming is influenced by where he lives (Corralitos, CA) just as yours is influenced by your location (Boston, MA) and my viewpoint is necessarily influenced by my location (Noblesville/Indianapolis, IN). It seems to me that a lot of social changes start on the West Coast, often including those of a greater governmental powers nature -- Tim may actually have more to worry about than you or me. Or none of us may have these worries *if* we make sure, in whatever ways we can, to influence others to resist the continuing encroachment of governmental power upon individual freedoms. Plus I think (from what I can see): * Tim likes to be prepared; and * Tim finds weaponry intrinsically interesting; so these elements enter his writing. To make a long story short (too late!), when I read Tim saying that the judge has committed a capital crime, I interpret that as he should be tried, and if found guilty (as Tim thinks likely so), then he should receive a severe punishment consistent with the nature of his crime. Both Tim and you, Bob, write very clearly and coherently. I have never read anything that Tim has written that makes me think he is anywhere near ready to make a "first strike" against government -- but if the government chooses to act illegally and unconstitutionally against Tim, he says he will defend himself as is his right. I dunno... Sometimes, Bob, I think that you and Tim have so much trouble because you are in such violent agreement about the importance of cryptography... ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"