[117080] in Cypherpunks
RE: Sanctions, Covert Action, Destabilization, and Bombings (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Thu Aug 26 02:01:06 1999
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:29:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
cc: John Haggerty <jhaggert@streetforce.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
waste@zor.hut.fi
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, David Honig wrote:
> At 07:29 AM 8/25/99 -0700, John Haggerty wrote:
> >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
> >instead of in some eco-friendly anti-utopia.
>
> Yes, but will you sacrifice your first (or any) born to defend your
> ability to buy that oil?
Most cavemen will to defend themselves against the cold and the dark.
Especially when the priests of the tribe tell them to do so for the good
of the tribe.
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