At 10:15 PM -0700 6/3/97, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 4:50 PM -0700 6/3/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
Contrast ["milita violence"] with the brilliance of the anarchist Eward Abbey in "The Monkey Wrench Gang", where the anti-government acts were calculated to call forth popular support.
I enjoyed "The Monkey Wrench Gang" immensely, but I'm not convinced Abbey captured the popular sentiment very well. Blowing up the dam they planned to hit would have doubtless produced the same maudlin images we see of OKC victims. Dead babies washed up in the debris along the Colorado River and all. CNN would love it.
This is an important point. When you kill people, you make implacable enemies. Consider the SF Bay area rescue team that is still trying to
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learn how to live with the memory of the mangled bodies they found Oklahoma ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ City. They hate the person(s) responsible for the bombing and they did not even have relatives killed there.
To cement my politically incorrect images, I think it clear that most of these so-called "traumatized" teams are made more traumatized by all the mental health care professionals and Marin County social workers _telling them_ they should be traumatized! "Grief counseling" is a big business. Surely what they saw at OKC, person for person, was not substantially different from what they saw prying squashed bodies out of the freeway collapse in Oakland? Or of what rescue workers have seen in refinery explosions, mine collapses, dam busts (there goes that monkey wrench gang again), floods, fires, and countless war experiences. But it makes for a nice piece on CNN to interview the traumatized rescue worker and ask him much longer his "grief disability" insurance will last. I don't mean to "hurt their feelings" (as if any of them are reading the Cypherpunks list!!!) but enough is enough. They shouldn't be in rescue work if a building collapse is going to freak them out so much. --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."