Re: SOC: Luddite Call to Action

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 15:11:56 MDT


Joe Dees wrote:
>
> >From: GBurch1@aol.com
> >Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:52:22 EDT
> >Subject: SOC: Luddite Call to Action
> >To: extropians@extropy.com
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> >
> >[This appeared as an anonymous "call to action" on one of the
> >anti-genengineering lists I monitor: ]
> >
> >
> >A message to the elves of the night
> >
>
> I detect eerie echos of Kaczynski's Unabomber manifesto in this.

Yes, Kazinski is like Mao, Marx, Lenin, or Jesus H Christ to these
people, and his Manifesto is widely read and has seemed to be the
trigger incident for the formation of this movement beyond the west
coast EarthFirsters...

-- 
TANSTAAFL
Mike Lorrey
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When
the
Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give
to
them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility,
then
Athens ceased to be free."  --- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
"A person who wants a society that is both safe and free, wants what
never 
has been, and what never will be."  --- Thomas Jefferson
"It's a Republic, if you can keep it..." --- Benjamin Franklin


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