[107292] in Cypherpunks
RE: There's Something About Gary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Jan 8 19:08:22 1999
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:57:23 -0500
To: Rob S <fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990108160841.fireman@shaw.wave.ca>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Difference is this pseudo-prophet doesn't just want to sell you stuff, he
wants
to impose a draconianBiblical law on you.
See also:
http://www.reasonmag.com/9811/col.olson.html
-Declan
At 04:08 PM 1-8-99 -0500, 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.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
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