roundtable: Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online? (fwd)

roundtable: Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online? (fwd)

Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online? (fwd)

Red Boucher (redbou@alaska.net)
Sun, 24 Sep 1995 20:28:03 -0800 

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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 20:28:03 -0800
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: redbou@alaska.net (Red Boucher)
Subject: Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online? (fwd)


> FYI
>
> Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 20:04:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
> To: Donovan White <dwhite@iii.net>
> Cc: online-news@marketplace.com
> Subject: Re: FW: Unabomber manifesto text online?
>
>> On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Donovan White wrote:
>>
>> > "G.S. Aikens" <gsa1001@cus.cam.ac.uk>
>> >
>> > > I hear the Unabomber wants a weekly column now.
>> > >
>> > > If it were only available on the Net, it'd be a great draw.
>> >
>> > Since nobody knows who he is, you can write it yourself. Anybody
>> > can.
>> >
>> > Judging from the response and Brock's column, there's a little bit of
>> > the Unabomber in a lot of people.
>
>   I have seen three large papers in recent week adavocating a complete
> overthrow of the technological civilization on various grounds.  Not one
> had a clue as to the alternative civilization or how to bring it about.
>
>    The Unabomber and others who wish to replace this civilization will
> very likely grow in numbers and impact as we head into the real storm
> season but I can't take seriously the notion that a sane and reasonable
> solution to the existing situation is a simple return to the state of
> nature.  What about the loss of life that that would entail, perhaps
> billions and billions of lost souls, is that not the more
> irrational response?
>
>    I wonder, also, how wise it is for those who, like the Attorney
> General, are running this civilization into the ground for lack of a
> principled understanding of human existence, to then accept the
> extortionate demands of the mad bombers out of fear of their wrath?
> What about the anger of responsible citizens, mad as hell over the rigged
> and lopsided structure of power, the destruction of our democracy, the
> fundamentally illegitimate state of our existence, does that not demand a
> proper hearing and response?  Or does it take the threat of serial murder
> to awken public and private understanding?
>
> Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>


Vigdor,

How would you deal with Unabomber's?  I believe like aircraft highjacking, 
it has and will create copycats?

Red Boucher
<redbou@alaska.net>

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