[117058] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sanctions, Covert Action, Destabilization, and Bombings (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Wed Aug 25 19:41:39 1999
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:28:24 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>What do you think would happen to the US if we didn't get that oil? Why do you
>think we fought for it so hard? We need the oil to live! Consider
>this situation
>
>and magnify it by at least 6,000 times and we have what would happen if
>Mid-eastern oil were cut off. Personally I want to live like I am living now
So you are saying that people in this country aren't smart
enough to find a new energy source.
That there is no way that could be found where you could live
a similar lifestyle without fucking with the environment (to the
extent we are today, we aren't doing it any favors).
Are you saying that your ability to drive a 3 ton SUV that
gets 10 miles to the gallon is worth bombing the shit out of other
countries, sending the sons and daughters of THIS country into harms
way, and just generally making life hell for OTHER people so you can
continue YOUR WORTHLESS SHEEPLIKE existence?
Selfish is good. Blind stupidity isn't.
Follow this chain of "logic":
The government claims that it wants to revoke certain rights
to stop "Drug Dealers, Money Launderers, Terrorists and Child
Pornographers". the first one was created as a reaction to the state
getting involved where it probably shouldn't. The second is PURELY a
creation of the state, and the fourth one is...outside the context of
this discussion. It's really the third one that concerns us in this
post.
Terrorists--why do that do it? For the Money? I doubt there
is much money in it. For the fame? Other than Bin Lauden, McVeigh and
that Bobby wassis name,the congressthing from Illinois, how many
terrorists can YOU name (idea: Terrorist Trading Cards)?
My father used to tell this story about when he was a kid.
There was the OB neighborhood bully who was bent over with his back
to my father. My father, having been on the receiving end of more
than one or two blows decided to even the score up a little bit, so
he picked up a loose brick and started running at the kid full speed.
As he passed, without slowing down he smashed the brick on the back
side of the kids head.
Terrorists these days usually do it for the same reason. They
do it because they are tired of the bombs falling on their villages.
They are tired of their friends being rounded up and "Put To The
Question" by jackbooted thugs supported by the Jackboot Thugs and
their willing accomplices (that would be you monkey boy) in the
public at large.
People in this country are all for *certain* rights, but only
for Americans. Americans have those rights WORLD ROUND--or should
have, BUT ONLY AMERICANS.
And you justify it with your "wanting to keep your
lifestyle". Guess what, I want to keep mine as well--most of it, but
I happen to think we can do this without standing on the backs of the
rest of the world, and without bombing them, without pulling out
their fingernails and without shooting large numbers of them.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this
country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a
product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of
rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan
Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
