CDR: Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

Jim Choate ravage at ssz.com
Fri Nov 24 12:09:33 PST 2000


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".

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