From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:13:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: [cpe:3185] Re: rescue Mrs Allen from the Feds (Re: Tim's worst nightmare.,..)
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Adam Back wrote:
>The Gandi style walk in, in numbers walk off with Mrs Allen :-)  What are
>they going to do, shoot 1000 unarmed citizens?

You could probably do it with one church congregation's worth of
people.

>This kind of tactic works quite well for tyrants who have become too 
>civilised.

Or, perhaps the basis of political power is a general acceptance of
the rulers among the ruled and acts which would disrupt this
acceptance are more dangerous to the government than you would think.

Amnesty International has been successful just by organizing massive
letter writing expressing disapproval of the treatment of particular
political prisoners.  The regimes affected could not reasonably be
described as "civilized."

For that matter, the U.S. and British governments have not always been
so nice when they didn't think anybody was looking.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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