On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:03:37PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
Murder of vast numbers of people who believe as you do becomes justified, when you use control of a technology that they don't have, to censor their views on what you are doing, and make it impossible for them to stop you any other way.
Jonathan, WHAT are you talking about? Mav is one of the least contentious people around here! Be nice? Mav is always nice, except when there are times when it's wrong to be nice. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
A) Mav summarily reverted a lot of my edits on the strength of some bullshit Zionist claims that I was biased, anti-Semitic, and the like. I assumed 24 was another person who had received that treatment from Mav.
B) The "threat" was obviously referring to the massive ethnic conflicts that have been happening through history, including very recent history, where groups without power wreak bloody vengeance when they finally gain the upper hand.
I understood his quoted statement as a way of saying "be nice now, and when the people who think like me have the power, they won't considers themselves to have cause to purge and pogrom the people who think like you."
HOWEVER!
In private correspondance I have been told that 24 has a long history of threatening extreme violence, and showing signs of being mentally disturbed in a criminally dangerous way.
Given this, I hasten to add that my analysis of 24's statement lacks the context of people who have dealt with 24 on an on-going basis. Erik may very well have received death threats from 24, and I encourage him to contact the police.
I encourage Erik to give the police more context than I saw in that first post; the police, knowing 24 as much as I did (ie, not at all), may very well interpret the post the same way I did; as harmless crankery.
Jonathan