[81154] in Cypherpunks
Re: McVeigh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Wed Jun 4 16:27:59 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 97 07:57:30 EDT
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970603234401.03ccf980@panix.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
frissell@panix.com writes:
> Circa 1974, I was sitting in my law school lounge watching "The Charge of the
> Light Brigade" starring Errol Flynn on TV. There was a group of other
> students there. Then came the line from the film: "Men, we're going to show
> these Turks that you can't murder innocent women and children and live to
> boast about it (a British garrison had been attacked, which led to the
> Charge). I immediately piped up, "That's funny, George McGovern did!"
I haven't seen the movie, but my recollection is that in real life the
British were attacking the Russians. See, the Turks were killing
Xians in the Balkans, and the Russians foolishly tried to protect them,
and the British stepped in to protect the Turks. Maybe they changed it
all in the movie version (can't expect U.S. moviegoers to follow 19th
century politics).
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