"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson Often those who speak of patriotism wield the term as a thunderbolt to head off criticism of their plans. "It is unpatriotic to oppose the CDA, mandatory key escrow." It is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when used as an excuse to violate civil liberties. I suspect that's not what Tim was doing below. -Declan On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 10:10:37PM -0700, Tim May wrote: [usual rant deleted]
Kill the key grabbers and all those who support them. Isn't it exactly what Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and the others would have argued?
Amazing. Patriotism -- the last refuge of the scoundrel.
However, Patric Henry said something like "Give me liberty or give me death." That is really very different from "Kill everyone who opposes me and all their supporters." Tim doesn't seem to understand this nuance.
-- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html