At 7:27 PM -0700 9/18/97, Anonymous wrote:

Mark Hedges wrote:

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Mostly, I just don't want to get nuked. I don't want the people in Washington to get nuked. I don't want to be ostracized because a disjointed group I'm associated with has members who support nuking political opponents. "Nuke DC" is crap. "Ecash Assassination Politics" is crap. The loss of faith in one's ability to convince other people with rational discussion is crap. That whole attitude reminds me of the guys in early grade school who beat up on me because I was a nerd. I refuse to sink to their level.

The guys who beat you up in grade school are now the ones who are running Congress. They haven't matured, they are just upscale and have learned better techniques.

Exactly. Bullies with any intelligence at all move into jobs that use their psychological bent: politics, law enforcement, the military, etc.

The only problem I have with Tim May's "Nuke DC" is that he lacks the necessary qualifier:

"Nuke D.C. now, while Congress is still in session"

And recall that this whole "Nuke D.C." thing is a misstatement of my original statement. "Check the archives." What I said was that I would not shed any tears to hear on CNN one fine morning that D.C. had gotten nuked. And in other posts I haved opinined that D.C. is one of several "soft targets" that are best avoided.

From reading tonight several of Mark Hedges' posts, I surmise he is not all careful with accurately getting his facts straight.

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