[107244] in Cypherpunks
There's Something About Gary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Jan 7 08:41:05 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:33:33 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:32:55 -0500
>To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: There's Something About Gary
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17193.html
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> There's Something About Gary
> by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
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> 3:00 a.m. 7.Jan.99.PST
> For decades Gary North has made a living
> predicting modern society will end in
> panic and ruin.
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> In 1980, he forecast rationing of housing
> and a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
> He warned his followers to buy "gold,
> silver, a safe place outside the major
> cities."
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> Then AIDS became the threat: "In 1992,
> we will run out of available hospital
> beds.... The world will eventually panic,"
> he wrote in 1987.
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> Now North has found Y2K and a skittish
> audience receptive to predictions of
> doom.
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> A recent advertisement for his Remnant
> Review newsletter proclaims: "A bank run
> like no other will bankrupt banks all over
> the world in 1999."
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> [...]
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> "He wants to make sure the banking
> system crashes. It's a self-fulfilling
> prophecy," Clarkson says.
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> Out of this wreckage, North and many
> other Christian Reconstructionist men
> hope to build a harsh Biblical order where
> sinners, such as adulterers and gay men,
> can be brutally punished, even executed,
> preferably by stoning.
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> [...]
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