From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:51:14 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: Re: Minor Language Note
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The current? US New & World Report has a cover story on terrorism, in
which they report on James Dalton Bell.  Pictures, claims that we're
right wing extremists, the whole shebang.  James Dalton Bell does
sound more threatening than Jim Bell.  And as to your list, Tim, many
of the people you quote are either long dead or serious troublemakers.
(Robert Anton Wilson).  It does seem that the full name invocation is
intentional.

Adam


Tim May wrote:
| 
| >> While it was not Tim's intention to make Jim look like a criminal, the
| >> use of a defendent's full name is often used to connote criminality.
| >>
| >> Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Milhous
| >> Nixon, William Jefferson Clinton... there are many examples.
| 
| George Washington Carver, James Fennimore Cooper, Richard Dean Anderson,
| Clare Booth Luce, Robert Anton Wilson, Francis Scott Key, .....
| 
| Your point was what, Monty?
| 
| (Sometimes people have three names, sometimes two names, popularly used.
| Criminality has little to do with it. For example, Richard Speck, Charles
| Manson, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, Terry
| Nichols.  Most of them presumably have middle names.)
| 
| Oh, and as to divining what Tim's "intention" was, this mindreading and
| psychoanalysis shtick is getting old.
| 
| --Tim May
| 
| The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
| ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
| Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
| ComSec 3DES:   408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
| W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
| Higher Power: 2^2,976,221   | black markets, collapse of governments.
| "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
| 
| 
| 


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