From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:07:47 +0800
To: Blanc <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: War & InfoWar
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At 11:12 pm -0400 on 5/12/97, Blanc wrote:

> Truthfully, I don't think you've stockpiled any explosives to use for such
> an act, and even if you had, I don't believe you would use them.   You'd
> have to pay someone else to do the deed, and even so you'd probably start
> reflecting on all those other people's itty bitty children who would have
> to lose their lives in that total destruction, and chicken out.

Ah. A 90's version of Freddy Hayek's "Road to Serfdom", maybe?
A turn-of-the-new-century Phabian Society needs a Stalin to make it's
dreams reality?

Be careful what you wish for, ladies and germs...

Cheers,
Bob

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