From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 20:00:19 +0800
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Subject: Re: Assassination Politics 9!
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At 07:04 PM 3/4/96 -0500, John Young wrote:

>The Economist terrorism report is unusally thoughtful and open-minded,

As opposed to the drivel you normally see in the media?

>and
>considers the benefits of savaging innocents from the perspectives of a
>variety of deeply held beliefs. 

Which "innocents"?  And which "deeply held beliefs"?  I've never advocated 
"savaging innocents."  But I don't consider people who benefit from 
government theft AND actively participate in that theft by being employed by 
that government as "innocents."

 >But after revewing the plenitude of those who have murdered

I notice you used the term, "murdered."  Well, by the strict definition of 
the term, that's merely premeditated killing which is against the law.  In a 
country suitably dictatorial government, defending oneself from agression by 
its agents is, then, "murder."

Sorry, but I don't subscribe to the agressor's (government's) opinion of 
what I may do to him if I were given the opportunity.

> for
>understandable motives, it does point to a very small group who truly lack
>any rationale for earthly comprehension. 

Read:  "It selectively focuses on a few, wrong people, and ignores the rest 
who are justified."

Did I get it?

>Not that I want to get on your "Shit, shoot that fucker" list, but take a
>look at it to double-check that you're not skydiving into the wrong
>maelstrom. It's pretty long, but I'll gladly scan it and send it along. 

Well, go right ahead.  The Economist is better than most, but I seriously 
doubt that there is going to be anything there that changes my mind.  Maybe 
I ought to email my essay to the author, to see what he thinks of it...


>If not that, read Tim's pithy warning today about shit-stormtroopers
>provoked by the daredeviltry of extreme-unctuous freedom fighters. 

It's hard to provoke a person who is already dead.  If my system were 
operational, those "stormtroopers" wouldn't dare go to work in the morning.  
Or can't you see that?

If we dictate all of our actions based on the fear of what THEY will do, 
then THEY have already won, and we have already lost.

Jim Bell