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The Hate Minute

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Jun 30 17:16:32 1997

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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:46:57 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>

At 9:57 AM -0700 6/30/97, Bill Frantz wrote:

>To get elected in America, you have to give the voters someone to hate.
>Back 10 years ago, it was criminals, then it was wetbacks, now it is
>pornographers (and tobacco companies).  Hate is just so much better as a
>motivating force than good government (whatever "good" is).

Yes, why don't we just finish the process and institute the "Hate Minute"?

One day it could be Gunter Grass, the next it could be Kenneth Starr, and
so on.

Each day BB Bill could lead us in a minute of hate, carried live on CNN,
MSNBC, and the Internet.

Back to the war with Oceania...

--Winston Smith


There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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