[48968] in Cypherpunks
Re: Tim's paranoid rant about Declan appearing on "Europe's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Feb 2 02:10:34 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 23:02:55 -0800
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
stevep@songline.com, sameer@c2.org, ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu,
blakem@eniac.seas.upenn.edu, lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> > Rich, by now I suspect you've seen this joke, but what the hell:
> >
> > Q: What's a left-wing firing squad?
> >
> > A: Everyone stands in a circle and shoots at each other
At 06:11 PM 2/1/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote:
> I guess this is supposed to be something clever about how the vanguard is
> supposed to discard their personal interests for the common good.
Actually it refers to the famous factionalism of the left: Similar
to the parody in Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
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