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Re: McVeigh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Tue Jun 3 20:40:20 1997

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:50:02 +0000 (   )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: lucifer Anonymous Remailer <lucifer@dhp.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199706030603.CAA22498@dhp.com>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>



> Hallam-Baker, realizing he is a soft target, wrote:
> 
> > Appologists for McVeigh should consider that his actions did not
> > advance the militia cause an iota, it destroyed it and along with
> > it much of the right wing fringe.
> 
>   Or perhaps just sent more people underground.
>   Many remarked that the Jim Bell arrest chilled the free speech
> of many list members but there are now at least two active AP Bots
> on the internet.
>   I haven't noticed anybody "apologizing" for McVeigh or Bell.
> There are merely those who act or who don't act.

I would say that the visible and government-vilified militia groups have 
been damaged by this, because of the killing of innocents. Where is the 
second AP bot, I know about the one at sympatico.......

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