On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Adam
     Back <[1]adam@cypherspace.org> wrote:

     Dont worry about James hyperbole, he's just channeling Tim May who
     was one
     of the three or four list co-founders, wrote the cyphernomicon [1],
     and had
     a habit of using that phrase 'needed killing' now and then, as I
     recall as
     phrase to express his distaste for someone's actions.  Its an
     expression,
     not something literal... but James' black & white, non-PC,
     absolutist
     personality precludes him saying that :)  You just have to read it
     with a
     USENET flame war mentality and parse for what he's actually saying.
     Apart from the refusal to bow to PC, James is actually a pretty
     smart guy
     from what I recall.  He implemented some simplifed UX, ECC crypto
     email
     stuff called 'crypto kong' [2] way back in 1997.
     Cypherpunks write code & all that, gives James some brownie points.

   History is littered with people who did remarkable things only to abuse
   the trust people placed in them to do horrible things. Writing some
   cool ECC crypto code does not preclude you from criticism when you show
   yourself to be someone who fantasizes about killing people. (Just look
   at all the creative ways he killed off people in the last thread! There
   was way too much imagination involved to be channeling anyone.)
   On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Cari Machet <[2]carimachet@gmail.com>
   wrote:

     Thanks - yes I know who may is and I understand the libertarian head
     space - as a fucking American citizen of native American descent I
     often find it at best 'racist' - I disagree with The laziness it's
     thought patterns propagate ... More later on ur packed analysis

   James already proved himself a racist earlier in the discussion when he
   mentioned that he could only find "a number of black felons who should
   have been killed off long ago" while googling a person's name. "Black"
   was, of course, completely irrelevant, but he nevertheless found it
   important to add.
   If you're puzzled as to why he acts this way, his website might shine a
   little light on the issue: [3]http://jim.com/.
   Clearly, the best solution is to ignore him. But let's not try to
   excuse what could best be described as the musings of a bitter old man
   because he wrote some code a decade ago.

References

   1. mailto:adam@cypherspace.org
   2. mailto:carimachet@gmail.com
   3. http://jim.com/