in defense of Lon Horiuchi
Zooko Journeyman
zooko at xs4all.nl
Fri Sep 12 01:57:27 PDT 1997
When I posted "in defense of Lon Horiuchi" I had intended not
to follow up on the thread, but the several responses I've
read (which were more reasoned and polite than I had expected--
thanks guys) indicate that I didn't explain myself clearly.
It was not my intention to argue that Lon Horiuchi is a good
guy, that he fulfilled his responsibilities with appropriate
care, that he's a good shot, that he worked in an honorable
profession, that he is blameless in the death of the child, or
such. (I may or may not _believe_ some of these propositions,
but I'll spare you for you the full littany of my opinions.)
All I intended to assert was that Lon Horiuchi is almost
certainly not the malicious baby-killing murderer that
Anonymous portrayed.
There are many issues one could legitimately argue regarding
a policeman who accidentally kills a non-combatant bystander
during a fight. But comparing such a policemen to a
terrorist who deliberately targets non-combatants with a bomb
is beyond the pale. That, but for my interruption, this
comparison would have passed unremarked among the cypherpunks
crowd is damning.
Why I'm posting:
I don't expect that merely because of my contradiction the
more rabid cypherpunks will suddenly throw off their twin
blinders of ideology and hatred. Neither do I desire that
they retreat into closed conversation where they can continue
their self-inflaming rants without fear of interruption. My
motivation in posting critical articles like these is primarily
because there are a great number of silent readers of the
cpunks list, and some of these people, perhaps being young or
inexperienced, may consider such vile slanders to be
self-evident truths if they continually see them pass
unchallenged.
Regards,
Zooko
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