This Message by - Mike Hemmingson
I, for one, am in favor of bombing government buildings under construction. Not only will it frustrate the powers that be, but the contractors will be happy, they'll get more money to start again, more people will continue having jobs, and overall the economy will be the better for it.
Bombs are better because they get the message delivered with much more impact. With a gun, you're liable to get caught or killed because you're right there doing it. With a bomb, you leave it and walk away, go home with a Big Mac, and watch the end result of your action on CNN all night. Ya have a few beers, then you go to bed feeling like you've been productive.
Mike,
Tim McVeigh's lost brother
This Message by - Ravan
* This Message by - Jasmine Sailing
* I must say, bombs seem to be getting rather popular in the US
* these days. Are we switching from a guns and blunt instruments
* nation to an explosives nation? Trading in our cowboy badges
* for terrorist hide-outs?
The U.K. has had gun control for years, and explosives are a big part of their lives. We are getting more gun control, so now our terrorists are switching to bombs too. Fact is, bombs are more deadly, less discriminating, and fairly easily cobbled together from common materials.
I've never made a bang-bang (I live in a city - no place to test, or build it without risk to neighbors), but as a chemist I have a long time fascination with "energetic materials" (read explosives, rocket fuels, etc...). Most chemists seem to, probably from high school.
Any idiot can go down to the library and figure out how to build a bomb. Very few can figure out how to do it safely, most haven't got the ambition. Unfortunately, the fanatic and the deranged have the itensity and concentration to do it, including getting the materials together.
* The DEA building,
* The UnaBomber,
* TWA,
* The Olympics.
Those are just the ones that have made the papers recently.
* What'll be next? Mebbe we should make it useful and start blowing
* up random, closed, McDonalds'.
What'll be next is a police state.
Ravan
This Message by - Jasmine Sailing (jsailing)
* In a drugless frenzy, Mike Hemmingson mistakenly declared:
* Read Full Force Frank's stuff.
Or get a copy of Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed With Depraved Sex and Violence from me and read the Full Force Frank intro. Frank's a good example. Anything like this would have him cackling happily and then getting pissed off because there wasn't a higher death toll. Many people are ticked off enough at life and the world to revel in pain and carnage. They simply don't give a damn about the afflicted emotional pain to the survivors.
* It's not that I don't sympathize with those close to the hurt
* and killed -- in fact, I feel greatly for them. But there's
* always that risk -- you go to the Olympics, you know it's a
* target, you take your chances. It's like sky-diving -- there's
* always the chance the wind will push you into a mountain.
* When I went to Isreal many years ago, I knew there was a
* chance I could be shot, taken hostage, ride a bus that got bombed.
How about when you went to Rwanda at the end of the heat of things there? I was giving you shit left and right, asking if I was supposed to posthumously publish you. Yet I still tend to live in bad neighborhoods and next to crack houses where people are shooting each other. I guess we all decide which risks are worth it to us.
* It's easy to say, "PSYCHO BOMBER!" But many people have an agenda
* for their actions -- much like our forefathers who bombed and
* comitted terrorists acts against the evil Imperialist England
The UnaBomber had an agenda. I would certainly expect that the OKC bombing had an agenda, considering it was a government building. A governmental building for touchy policies, no less. It's not fun that people get hurt. But, at the same time, you have to take it into account that the people who inflict the hurt probably have reasons that, to them, are perfectly valid for doing it. They just might want to put a little more thought into what they are doing... Blowing up little kids hardly sends out a good message.
Jasmine Sailing Cyber-Psychos AOD jsailing@netonecom.net
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I play with fire because the shimmering flames make everything look so
beautiful around them. And the same flames always lash out to burn me,
to leave me wailing in pain. Then they dance shyly away and everything
is beautiful once again so I blissfully return to my previous playing.