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Home Front
Postal boy's note...
2002-05-04
Text of note left in mailboxes in the Midwest where pipe bombs were found Friday:
Mailboxes are exploding! Why, you ask?
As well we might...
Attention people.
Whoa! Now that's imperious. Wants to be in charge, doesn't he?
You do things because you can and want (desire) to.
Statement of the obvious. Though sometimes we do things because we have to. Like when we track down lunatic attempted murderers.
If the government controls what you want to do, they control what you can do.
That sentence isn't connected to the previous sentence.
If you are under the impression that death exists, and you fear it, you do anything to avoid it. (This is the same way pain operates. Naturally we strive to avoid negative emotion/pain.)
It's an accurate impression. Death exists, even though it's fairly common for teenagers to doubt it. It comes to all of us, sooner or later. Sometimes we fear it and sometimes we don't and most times we don't think about it because we're rational human beings concentrating on being alive. Same applies to pain. It doesn't necessarily apply to negative emotion, which is not to be confused with pain.
You allow yourself to fear death!
Sounds to me like he's concentrating on it a lot more than we are.
World authorities allowed, and still allow you to fear death!
Sentence isn't connected with the previous. Americans think about "world authorities" somewhat less than they think about death.
In avoiding death you are forced to conform, if you fail to conform, you suffer mentally and physically. (Are world powers utilizing the natural survival instinct in a way that allows them to capitalize on the people?)
Unspoken assumption here is that conformity is a bad thing. In certain respects we all have to conform, except for lunatics.
To "live" (avoid death) in this society you are forced to conform/slave away.
Sounds like he doesn't like the idea of having to get a job, doesn't it?
I'm here to help you realize/understand that you will live no matter what! It is up to you people to open your hearts and minds. There is no such thing as death. The people I've dismissed from this reality are not at all dead.
Oooh. Messiah complex? "Opening up hearts and minds" implies accepting (dare we say, conforming to) what the writer wants. Anything else is evidence of a close heart and/or mind. Denial of the existence of death is also a pretty good indication of lunacy. Note that he's also making the assumption that he was successful in inducing rigor mortis into mailmen, school kiddies checking the mail, and tax-paying homeowners.
Conforming to the boundaries, and restrictions imposed by the government only reduces the substance in your lives. When 1% of the nation controls 99% of the nations total wealth, is it a wonder why there are control problems?
Certainly not a proven assumption. First a regurgitation of tattered hippy twaddle, followed by the statement that 1% controls the 99%, which is regurgitated Chomskytwaddle. Again, the disconnect: if the 1% really controlled the 99% the 1% wouldn't have any control problem, would it?
The United States strives to provide freedom for their people. Do we really have personal freedom? I've lived here for many years, and I see much limitation. Does the definition of freedom include limitation? I've learned about the history of various civilizations in history, and I see more and more limitation. Do you people enjoy this trend of limitation? If not, change it!
If he's lived here for "many years" he hasn't understood what he was living in. I still don't think "many years" translates into enough years to make him old enough to vote. The definition of freedom always includes limitations, because one man's freedom is another man's injury. History does backwards, not forward, and it's not hard to find limitations on freedom in history, generally becoming more constricting until one reaches the Middle Ages, when the majority was tied to the land. Try another civilization and you'll find equivalent limitations on freedom.
As long as you are uninformed about death you will continue to say "how high", when the government tells you to "jump". As long as the government is uninformed about death they will continue tell you to "jump" Is the government uninformed about death, or are they pretending?
Death has nothing to do with the government. Taxes do. The government doesn't think about death, it thinks about taxes.
You have been missing how things are, for very long.
More Messiah/Stranger in a Strange Land stuff. Childish.
I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can.
He can't accomplish anything of substance with his life.
More info is on its way. More "attention getters' are on the way. If I could, I would change only one person, unfortunately the resources are not accessible. It seems killing a single famous person would get the same media attention as killing numerous un-famous humans. There is less risk of being detained, associated with dismissing certain people.
No, you can't do the Hinkley thing.
Sincerely,

Someone Who Cares
As opposed to the rest of us, who don't.
PS. More info. will be delivered to various locations around the country.
He's got Mom's car, and he's on the road.

Based on the contents, I'm not sure if we're dealing with a 17 1/2 year old who writes bad poetry and wears a black trenchcoat or an out-and-out adult nut. I still lean toward the former, but I suppose it could be Son of Kaczynski. Hope we find out soon.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  Kathy's also blogged this. Beat me to it, too.
Posted by: Fred   2002-05-04 19:04:05  

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