[118809] in Cypherpunks
RE: IP: Editorial: Apocalypse Soon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lysander Spooner)
Fri Oct 8 11:32:28 1999
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:12:04 -0400
From: Lysander Spooner <lysander@MailAndNews.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
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>> The report goes on to conclude that despite the fact that the United
>>States will be, both absolutely and relatively, the most powerful nation on
>>Earth, and despite the lack of a global competitor, we will be "limited in
>>our ability to impose our will, and we will be vulnerable to an increasing
>>range of threats."
>>
>> "States, terrorists, and other disaffected groups will acquire weapons
>>of mass destruction and mass disruption, and some will use them. Americans
>>will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers."
Yup.
I like what L. Neil. Smith has to say about terrorist violence -- which also
probably applies to any state too small to ever consider expansionist
invasion:
"The best-kept "secret" of our overly- governmentalized age is that terrorism
almost invariably reactionary; simply stop doing things -- things you
shouldn't be doing anyway -- that cause terrorists to attack you and the
attacks will stop." http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/twa800.html
-- Lysander Spooner
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