[109052] in Cypherpunks
Of paranoia, of Tim May and of Cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Tue Mar 9 16:58:07 1999
From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>, "Alan Olsen" <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:31:44 -0500
Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 19:28:55 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
>At 08:15 PM 3/8/99 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>>
>>Tim May, the real one, used to be less idiotic than that. The present one
>>does nothing but flaming. Bitches against my freedom-related post that
>happen
>>to be related to firearms, bitches against seemingly genuine on-topic
>>questions, bitches about everything. Just like my old 89 years old
>grand'ma...
>"When I was your age we didn't have Tim May! We had to be paranoid on our
>own! And we were grateful!"
Some sense of your comment is unfortunately lost to my canadian frenchness.
Rest assured that Tim May's blessed alledged existence is not sufficient to
provide rationalizations for dampening paranoid tendencies and self-
preservation instincts...
:-)
Ciao
jfa
Definition: FASCISM: n.: a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative
political units, are controlled by a strong central government.
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"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws.
Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides. Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns. -------------------------------------------------
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore
deprive them of their arms."
-- Aristotle, "Politics"
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