Re: Bombings, Surveillance, and Free Societies

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 5:42 AM 3/6/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 07:41 PM 3/4/96 -0800, Tim wrote:
>
>>Let me use the language Bill Stewart used a while back, language which
>>skirts the issue of "right" and "wrong" even more neatly than I did (when I
>>said the Jews were "asking for trouble"):
>>
>>"If a religious group uses force to expel the current occupants of a desert
>>region, and expels them to just beyond their borders, it is "unsurprising"
>>that those expelled, and their children, and their children's children,
>>will swear a blood oath to drive the group into the sea."
>
>That wasn't me, though I've said similar things about terrorism against
>governments - those that go out of their way to attack and harass people
>shouldn't be surprised when people attack them in return.

I'm pretty sure it was you. As I don't want to search through past posts to
try to find your use of this, let me make it clear that the language I was
referring to was what I quoted: "unsurprising."

I think you pointed out that instead of talking about "right" and "wrong,"
charged as they are, one can instead talk about certain events being
"unsurprising."

If this was not your coinage, and no one else steps forward, then I'll
gladly steal it and file the serial number off.

--Tim May, a felon


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