Detainees, Personal Libertarianism, and Vengeance

[Jim Choate]

Once again Tim shows how little he really does understand...

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote:

> while now, but haven't until now worked up the energy. (The fact that so 
> many of the Cypherpunks list subscribers are weirdos posting crap from 
> Hushmail and other throwaway accounts is also a factor. Perl before 
> swine, in a sense.)

> _their_ rights. The issue is about _my_ rights.

'their' rights ARE 'your' rights.

> cell for 5 weeks?"  (My view, expressed earlier, is that I would seek 
> vengeance. I would seek ways to kill the guards, the judges, the cops, 
> the bureaucrats, everyone involved in my "kidnapping.")

> appeal...just seizure of your property and transport to a KZ."  (I'm 
> surprised the Japanese-ancestry persons, hundreds of thousands of them, 
> were so meek. I'm surprised that thousands of former guards and judges 
> and processing officials were not assassinated during the 1950s as 
> payback. The Nuremberg case established, cough cough, that "just 
> following orders" is not a defense. Every single one of the guards and 
> officials at Manzanar deserved to be killed for his crimes. Even by 
> killing a dozen of the guards, and judges, something would have been 
> accomplished.)


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