[81099] in Cypherpunks
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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