From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 00:56:24 MDT
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 01:41 am, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> The thing to do in this sitution would be even more dramatic then
> destroying
> Mecca. Medina, and Qum. This would be to use Nukes against Saudi and
> Iranian oil fields, thus bringing the industrial world to a crashing
> halt. This would
> do 3 things.
>
> 1. Cause a massive world recession
> -but since an American city is now gone, this recession is immediately
> underway
>
> 2. This strike against oil fields would:
> (a) Tell the smug people of the world that the Americans are
> emphatically
> not taking it anymore. Despite their beliefs that we deserve it.
>
> (b) Cause the Muslim world to now believe that we are freaking
> crazy for
> destroying "our" oil supply. It would also put China on notice
> about
> the US's determination.
>
> (c) It would force the people of the world to consider the need to
> actually develop alternate fuels, or at least, alternate petroleum
> sources.
>
> 3. Finally, It would deprive the sheiks, the mullahs, the ayatollah's
> of
> their ability to finance their Jihads
This is the stupidest thing I have seen in a long time. You guys
posting this crap about nuking the planet are going to end up killing us
all. Not directly by anyone implementing your insane plans. No one in
their right mind would believe your lunatic ramblings.
No, what you are doing is destroying the transhumanist movement from the
inside. Just as a few violent muslim articles get quoted as being
representative of the entire muslim world, your rantings will be quoted
as representatitive of the transhumanist movement. The are all in the
archive. They get served up by Google. They don't contain any smileys
or hint that they aren't serious proposals. People read this stuff and
think that we are pushing this agenda to destroy the plan to bring out
some post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future a la Mad Max.
Is this what you want? Is this another "thought experiment", to see if
you can destroy our movement from the inside? I don't appreciate you
filling our archives with this violent destroy-the-world garbage. This
is about as far from the Extropian Principles as you can get.
Face it, folks. We have nothing to fear from terrorists or Luddites.
The worst damage done to our movement come from this kind of internal
sabotage.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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