Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]
Trei, Peter
ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Thu Dec 11 11:07:07 PST 2003
From: Nostradumbass at SAFe-mail.net wrote:
> Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore
> something akin to the original constitutional balance in the
> U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the
> terminally ill.
> Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the certainty of
> impending death and for some the possibility of fearlessness
> for physical harm or imprisonment.
Mr. Dumbass appears to be channeling the Earth Liberation Front:
Quotes from: http://www.stopecoviolence.com/words.htm
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"If I knew I had a fatal disease, I would definitely do something
like strap dynamite on myself and take out Grand Canyon Dam. Or
maybe the Maxxam Building in Los Angeles after it's closed up for the
night."
- Darryl Chernery, Northern California Earth Firster,
CBS News Sixty Minutes, March 4, 1990
"Are you terminally ill with a wasting disease? .Don't go out
with a whimper; go out with a bang! Undertake an ecokamikaze
mission."
- Excerpt from an article that ran in the Sept. 1989 issue
of the Earth First Journal, urging terminally ill activists to
go on "eco-kamikaze" suicide missions
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Google on "eco-kamikaze" for more.
It's worth noting that despite over a decade of this rhetoric,
not a single terminally ill American has done this, so far as I
am aware.
The *only* even vaguely simlar cases I'm aware of are in
India and Sri Lanka, where young Hindu widows (who, in
traditional Hindu society have very dim prospects for
a happy life) are recruited as suicide bombers by the
Tamil Tigers. I think Rajiv Ghandi's assassin was
such a woman.
Peter Trei
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