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Re: Purifying Washington with Nuclear Flames
"William H. Geiger III" <[email protected]> writes:
> In <v03007800af4415448ad4@[207.167.93.63]>, on 03/05/97 at 10:38 PM,
> "Timothy C. May" <[email protected]> said:
>
>
> >At 1:00 AM -0400 3/6/97, E. Allen Smith wrote:
> >>From: IN%"[email protected]" "Timothy C. May" 5-MAR-1997 22:59:36.45
> >>
> >>>Too bad your "assassination politics" doesn't extend to entire cities. I
> >>>have concluded that having a terrorist group smuggle a nuke into D.C. woul
> >>>not be altogether a bad thing. Besides dealing with the government problem
> >>>it would also deal with a quarter of a million or more unemployable welfar
> >>>addict leeches.
> >>
> >> I'm glad you say "altogether"... some of us live (or have friends or
> >>family who live) decidedly too close to D.C. for such to be an attractive
> >>possibility. Besides that, I'm certain there are some innocents in the city
> >>just-born infants, perhaps?
>
> >War is never clean. Innocents always get caught in the crossfire.
>
> >If the U.S., for example, had avoided all actions in WW II which might
> >have injured an "innocent" (babies, old women, schoolgirls, and so on...),
> >the war could not have been prosecuted. Now maybe this is one option, one
> >which ardent pacifists prefer, but most of us understand the practical
> >realities that "innocents" often die in wars.
>
> >Nuking Washington is just a joke, of course. But I wouldn't cry any tears
> >if I woke up one morning, turned on CNN, and was informed that a large
> >crater appeared where D.C. once was.
>
> I doubt that there would be few that would. :)))
>
> I have always found the statment of "innocent civilians" to be an odd one
> in a time of war.
>
> I have always beleived that all citizens held a collective guilt for the
> actions of their government. It is only through the support of the citizens
> can any government opperate wether through active support or through the
> inactivity of not opposing their government. This not only holds true for
> "democracies" for dictatorships as well. As such if the actions of a
> government bring it to war their civilian population is just as fair game
> as their troops in the field.
I wholeheartedly concur. Nuke Washington, DC. Kill every American everywhere.
Even if they voted for Perot.
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