Returning home from a night on the town here in scenic Santa Cruz (The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie" on the Boardwalk, and Dick Dale, "Miserlou" ("Pulp Fiction") at a local club, I see various and sundry articles blasting Pat Robertson. Some are obvious Toto-spoofs, and some quote Robertson as saying UFO enthusiasts ought to be stoned to death. In late 1993, months after the Clipper travesty was unveiled, Pat Robertson's "The 700 Club" denounced Clipper as an unconstitutional, and perhaps Satanic, plot. Not being a Believer, I can't comment on the Satanic part. (At the Hackers Conference, 1993, we sat and watched the "700 Club" videotape with amazement.) But I sure do know that I felt more commonality with Pat Robertson and "The 700 Club" than I ever have felt with Billy Bob Clinton and his fake Christian piety. If Pat Robertson called for the death by stoning of UFO believers, it was almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole, like Rush Limbaugh's suggestions of what ought to be done to lesbians. I'm not a believe in any religion. but I have more in common with Pat Robertson or the Grand Mufti of Mormonism than I do with Bill and Hillary and George and Barbara and Ronnie and Nancy and.... --Tim May, who thinks bashing of Christians can be carried too far. 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."