Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list

[aga <aga@dhp.com>]

On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Dale Thorn wrote:

> Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> > Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > Kevin L Prigge wrote:
> > > > paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk said:
> 
> > > > > "cypherpunks will make the networks safe for censorship"
> 
> > > > "Idiots will make the networks require censorship"
> 
> > > The line above this one says it all, doesn't it?  If I judge you to
> > > be "an idiot", then, if I also have the power to shut you up, I can
> > > not only shut off your "noise" from me, but also prevent anyone else
> > > from hearing you as well.  That's the real beauty of censorship -
> > > if I have the power, I can make you a non-person by preventing most
> > > people from hearing you at all.  Oh, lovely, isn't it?
> 
> > Don't you like power, Dale?
> 
> I have a great deal of respect for power.  When I was 6, I unwound a
> coat hanger and put both ends into an electrical outlet.  All I
> remember from that is something like a sledgehammer hitting me, and
> I went backwards rather quickly.  And I never did it again.
> 
> 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.  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?