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In article <rogerlouzudvu.fsf_-_@sturgeon.coelacanth.com>,
roger@coelacanth.com (Roger Williams) wrote:

>Umm, probably so, but what's the connection between the OK bombing and
>Exon's bill?  Or, for that matter, the Internet?

For sane and rational folk, very little, but there appears to be little
sanity and even less rational thought inside the Beltway than usual.

The connection is that, for whatever reasons, some fascists in Congress
are convinced that the Internet is a hotbed of pro-anarchy activity, with
slavering psychotic anti-government militia members falling over
themselves posting seditionary propaganda and bomb recipes to newsgroups
read by eleven year olds.

Shortly after the OK City bombing there were a few isolated incidents of
teenaged pyromaniacs building their own bombs- Molotov cocktails and the
like. After the young ruffians were apprehended, they claimed they built
their weapons after downloading some information off the 'net.

Of course, they could have read the same info in the local public library,
but who cares? The Internet makes such a better scapegoat.


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