[107286] in Cypherpunks
RE: There's Something About Gary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob S)
Fri Jan 8 16:29:53 1999
In-Reply-To: <199901071329.FAA07342@smtp.well.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:08:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
Personally I don't have a problem with the
weak-minded listening to the pseudo-prophets
and getting burned, it's an opportunity for
personal gain. A while back someone predicted a
tidal wave would hit the shores of Canada's east
coast, most every store there sold out of life-
jackets (tidal wave---> life-jacket ??? go figure).
Point is, there's always a fool ready to buy a
life-jacket and someone will make money selling them.
On 07-Jan-99 Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>
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>>
>>
>>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17193.html
>>
>> There's Something About Gary
>> by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> Then AIDS became the threat: "In 1992,
>> we will run out of available hospital
>> beds.... The world will eventually panic,"
>> he wrote in 1987.
>>
>> Now North has found Y2K and a skittish
>> audience receptive to predictions of
>> doom.
>>
>> A recent advertisement for his Remnant
>> Review newsletter proclaims: "A bank run
>> like no other will bankrupt banks all over
>> the world in 1999."
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> "He wants to make sure the banking
>> system crashes. It's a self-fulfilling
>> prophecy," Clarkson says.
>>
>> 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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Date: 08-Jan-99
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