When I posted "in defense of Lon Horiuchi" I had intended not to follow up on the thread, but the several responses I've read (which were more reasoned and polite than I had expected-- thanks guys) indicate that I didn't explain myself clearly. It was not my intention to argue that Lon Horiuchi is a good guy, that he fulfilled his responsibilities with appropriate care, that he's a good shot, that he worked in an honorable profession, that he is blameless in the death of the child, or such. (I may or may not _believe_ some of these propositions, but I'll spare you for you the full littany of my opinions.) All I intended to assert was that Lon Horiuchi is almost certainly not the malicious baby-killing murderer that Anonymous portrayed. There are many issues one could legitimately argue regarding a policeman who accidentally kills a non-combatant bystander during a fight. But comparing such a policemen to a terrorist who deliberately targets non-combatants with a bomb is beyond the pale. That, but for my interruption, this comparison would have passed unremarked among the cypherpunks crowd is damning. Why I'm posting: I don't expect that merely because of my contradiction the more rabid cypherpunks will suddenly throw off their twin blinders of ideology and hatred. Neither do I desire that they retreat into closed conversation where they can continue their self-inflaming rants without fear of interruption. My motivation in posting critical articles like these is primarily because there are a great number of silent readers of the cpunks list, and some of these people, perhaps being young or inexperienced, may consider such vile slanders to be self-evident truths if they continually see them pass unchallenged. Regards, Zooko