From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Mar 22 1999 - 17:35:27 MST
> > If McVeigh had broken into the office of the BATF official who
> > led the Waco raid and shot him, or planted a bomb in his desk, I
> > would be first in line to applaud him, regardless of whether he held
> > any territory or wore a uniform.
>
> I think advocating assassination is probably off-topic for the
> Extropians List.
I advocate self-defense in general as an expression of the Extropian
value of self-determination. Self-defense sometimes requires
deadly force. I would not publicly suggest that anyone assassinate
any particular person in power because it's hard to practice self-
determination from jail, but there's no law requiring me to weep
over the deaths of those who have chosen evil. And there's no law
(yet) against saying that I might understand--even admire--some
hypothetical illegal act.
The recent ruling against The Nuremburg Files does give me some
pause in that regard, though.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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