[107291] in Cypherpunks
RE: There's Something About Gary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M Taylor)
Fri Jan 8 18:47:43 1999
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:34:06 -0400 (AST)
From: M Taylor <mctaylor@privacy.nb.ca>
To: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990108160841.fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
Reply-To: M Taylor <mctaylor@privacy.nb.ca>
Having lived in Atlantic Canada (east of Eastern Canada) all my life, I
don't recall either such predictions or the flurry of lifejacket sales.
You shouldn't confuse jokes with reality.
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Rob S wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >> [...]
>
> E-Mail: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
