libertarian vs. socialist

[Tim May]

On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 02:21 AM, mattd wrote:

> "libertarian socialist" is an oxymoron."
> Like anarcho-capitalist?
> I do use anarchist gerberally.Tim Im posting articles under your name 
> at Indymedia.When I do I try to be very exact with it.
> but sometimes Im cutting and pasting like a whirling dervish and dont 
> attribute.Thats usually with the more outre statements you make in your 
> less lucid moments.Im just telling you as a courtesy,Oh and thanks for 
> not popping me in the corn.
>          "Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST 
> revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments?"
>

You need to get back on your medications.

But thanks for helping with my defense: "Tim Im posting articles under 
your name at Indymedia."

Persecutor: "Mr. May, did you write these words?"

Me: "I don't know. Other people post things under my name. I really 
can't say for sure whether I wrote those words. What did the digital 
signature say?"

(Note in general: Even without the forgeries from Detweiler, and now 
this admission from "mattd," I expect that if asked if I wrote something 
I would say "I don't know." Without checking my own archives, it would 
be hard to know if something attributed to me was actually written by 
me, was a clever forgery, or was a satirical forgery. It's why digital 
signatures, with flaws of their own, exist. And it's why I don't sign. A 
signature is giving away something of value, to a prosecutor in this 
case.)


--Tim May
"That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau