[49854] in Cypherpunks
Attitudes toward the government...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Feb 12 01:20:47 1996
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 23:43:06 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Jim Ray wrote:
>"Americans hate the IRS, and if the only way they can get rid of it
> is to elect somebody who is communicating directly with the Planet
> Xorgon, then so be it." -- Dave Barry [on Steve Forbes]. 2/9/96
Not just this, but another data point about the current sentiment about
Washington: In a movie theater today there was a preview of the upcoming
movie "Independence Day," showing a flying saucer hovering over the White
House, then destroying it. The audience cheered and clapped.
I'm not sure this would've happened in, say, the early 1950s.
(However, like the early 1950s, the producers of this upatriotic drivel may
have to answer to the House Un-American Activities Committee, to explain
their Indecent portrayal.)
--Tim May
(P.S. "Broken Arrow" was a fun flick. Sort of like "Fail Safe " on "Speed.")
Boycott espionage-enabled software!
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