On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, John Young wrote:
Bear surmised:
The "Needs Killing" verbiage you see here, I think, is mostly from people who, correctly or not, tend to think in terms either of there not being any governments, or in terms of the government being so ineffective that they are effectively in an ungoverned state.
Hold on. "Needs killing" is an epithet, like "fuck your mother" or in earlier theocratic days, "go to hell." It's a residue of a time when killing somebody who profaned your beliefs was done.
Perhaps for you, for others it is a serious expression of their goals. You seriously (intentionlay?) mis-represent the situation with this view. The belief is codified in "MAD". ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------