From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 18:49:45 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
>> MIke Lorrey wrote:
>>
>>> All an individual needs to defend and control their own bodies and
>>> lives from tyrannies of any sort (including majoritarian democratic
>>> tyrannies which James seems so enamored of), is shooting iron in one
>>> hand and encrypted packet network devices in the other.
>>
>> ### The local tyrant wouldn't even notice you had shooting iron,
>> because he has much bigger (that's why he can afford to tyrannize).
>> And all that the encryption would help you with, would be sending
>> teary letters from jail, until the execution.
>>
>> You need much more to protect yourself. Cooperation with a lot of
>> people, for starters.
>
> Incorrect. Randy Weaver beat the government at its own game with
> nothing but some high powered rifles and a good lawyer.
### Incorrect. Randy Weaver was less than a gnat on a T.Rex.
Nobody will even find your remains if a well-armed and unscrupulous
government is treating you as a serious adversary, rifle or no rifle.
The only thing between you, Mike, and oblivion is the good will of the US
government, maintained by the cooperative influence of millions of citizens,
most of whom don't need the internet, much less rifles to achieve that.
--- > > One man with a gun can neutralize an entire government. Just look at > one lone nutjob running around the greater DC area is doing right now. > He has the population paralyzed and the police perplexed, paralyzed, > ineffectual and irrelevant. Imagine if there were a few thousand (out > of a population of several million) such individuals doing what he is > doing at the same time, each acting as individuals. Organized armies > used by tyrants are entirely ineffectual against such insurgencies > when the insurgents are made up of the native population. ### Now, this is the most preposterous claim I read on this list in some time. To imply that lone-nut rifle-toting psychos are the guardians of freedom in this country takes a serious reality disconnect. Rafal
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