From: aga <aga@dhp.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:12:14 -0800 (PST)
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list
Message-ID: <199701282212.OAA04695@toad.com>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Dale Thorn wrote:

> aga wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> > > > Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> > > But seriously, I was just telling the folks over the weekend, if I
> > > had my hand on the button, a lot of people would die very quickly.
> > > As in The Day The Earth Stood Still, a single act of aggression would
> > > suffice to be immediately terminated.

No trial, huh?

  The best place to begin, in
> > > the USA at least, would be the public freeways.  There you have the
> > > most acts of aggression in a short space, and the best pickings for
> > > liquidation.  Give me the power, and I'll show you all those nifty
> > > techno-ways of eliminating people that have been kept from the public
> > > by our benevolent government ("sources and methods").
> > >
> > > BTW, I don't give a damn about someone "cutting me off", since I'm
> > > not aggressive enough (outside of my liquidation duties) to be bothered
> > > by that in most cases.  I'm primarily concerned with vehicles who get
> > > too close behind, who pass with no safety margin, etc.  I call these
> > > people anal-compulsive (as opposed to anal-retentive).  You've seen
> > > the videos on PBS, the various animal species whose male members
> > > perform occasional "mounting" of others to intimidate.  There are a
> > > large percentage of humans who try to do the same thing, demonstrating
> > > that they (IMO) have no further need of their lives.
> 
> > Boy, it is a fucking Bitch living in that L.A. traffic, huh?
> 
> I heard years ago that approximately 10% of the people on the street
> are certifiably mentally unstable.  Multiply that by two at least for
> Los Angeles (suburban L.A., actually, Hollywood for example is much
> safer than Altadena or Westlake Village).
> 

Just carry a gun all of the time when you go over there.

> Quincy M.D. (the old TV show) did an excellent piece once on how a
> person can more-or-less legally commit murder with a car, by passing
> a deliberate act off as an "accident".  It's one area of our law
> enforcement where the law (or rules) as stated by the state and as
> enforced by the state cops don't even agree.
> 

Maybe it is best to travel only on the net any more.
The highways are deathtraps.