EC comics were doing stories on that sort of thing back in
the early 1950's, and of course sf writers were coming up
with such scenarios long before that. Need I tell you your
notion is a bit hoary?
>
> You would go to your rest certain in the knowledge that you had saved
> millions by your selfless act. To the people of the time, you would be
> another anarchist assassin and nothing more.
>
> The people of today may never have had to contemplate, never mind
> endure, a holocaust such as we know of now.
I suppose there are such dunderheads, but let us hope shallow twits
like that are not as common as you suggest. Of course,
we DO have our share of tv-bred zombies, who might be
as ignorant as you suggest.
>To that generation, World
> War II may never have happened.
Plainly, they haven't been watching the "HIT-LUH" channel...
>If you believe in fate, another leader
> would have taken Hitler's place in infamy but I don't think that's
> true.
You should read, "The Man in the High Castle," by Philip K. Dick.
His scenario was much more original than yours, and will keep
any new reader guessing. (About alternate WW II's, I mean.)
>
> Allowed to fester and plan, the petty dictators of the world can and
> will become the Hitlers of today.
Not a chance. You might as well be saying they will be one of
the Attilas of today. I hear the sort of thing you are stating
there frequently, but it just isn't going to happen. Hitler has
taken his place with the great "bad-asses" of history, like
Attila and Genghis Kahn. There won't be another Hitler
anymore than there will be another Attila or Genghis. You
could give Saddam fifty nukes, and he still would not be the
equal of a pimple on Hitler's backside. Saddam will never
get beyond being a petty tyrant. That's nothing to do with
good or evil, it is just his nature--inherently petty and
peasant-like.
Allow any nation a free hand and w.e
> all face the same dangers as the Jews did in World War II.
I certainly agree that just about everyone on the planet
is subject to be exterminated by someone, if they give
that someone a chance to do it.
Imagine a
> war of fundamental beliefs being waged by another faith than yours
> where anyone believing different is placed into concentration camps
> and anihilated one by one or by thousands.
>
> Is that a real possibility? I think so and I think that the US is
> brave enough to take on the challenge even though there are those in
> this world and even in the US who consider the rights of some
> downtrodden New Hitler to be more important than those whose lives
> will be taken by that once and future criminal.
>
> I equate the actions of George W. Bush to be those of the person
> selfless enough to assassinate Adolf Hitler before he was known to the
> rest of the world as the brutal mass murderer of millions.
Your time-trip assassination "idea" was plowed into the ground
probably before you were even born. Sure, if you could go
back in time and assassinate Hitler early enough, you would
save millions of lives. I would be all for it. But why no go back
further and assassinate Attila and Ghengis Khan and save many
millions more? Why stop with Hitler? Of course, the answer is
that "HIT-LUH" (shout it and scare the shit out of everyone)
is far more recent, and therefore casts a far taller shadow on you.
>
> If you don't want any part of a possible conflict, stand by and
> complain about it. That's your right. Remember to ask for help when
> the enemy is on your doorstep. It will probably be there even if you
> oppose it now. Why is that? Because free people are concerned about
> the freedom of even those who disagree with them.
I agree that Saddam is a menace that the world will be better off
without. Anything he could do to harm America, he would do--
and that is reason enough to get rid of him, especially after 9-11.
Blitzkrieg him.
Even so, most of what you said here is shopworn, though I doubt
if you have to worry about very many misc.writing posters being
well read enough to notice that. And remember, fifty Saddams
would never equal one Hitler (any more than they would
equal an Attila or a Ghengis). I mean, look, "HIT-LUH"'s
been dead almost sixty years and he STILL seems to be scaring
everyone shitless... When's it going end? One-thousand
years from now? Two thousand? He's gone, he's dead.
Relax...re...lax...
alt.genius.bill-palmer
(Temporary office: rec.arts.prose)
wil...@ix.netcom.com >
> Ray >
You could save untold millions more lives if you could go back in time
and assassinate Jesus. Mohammed, too.
+Dinosaurbob+
I thought somebody already did...isn't that how it ended up this way?
Think of what an evil motherfucker Jesus must have been for whomeever the
soul-sacrificing-it-all in his (or her) time machine to throw their life
away to stop him...so remember, whenever you see a cross say a silent
prayer for Judas, who was really the savior of us all.
--
The Rev. Andre Brothel
- Doktor of pharmaceutical alchemy
'Always searching for the philosopher's stone.'
write to:
notdoc...@mindspring.com
Material plane of existance, apt #110
Seattle, WA abunchanumbershere
"Oh drugs, I can't stay mad at you"
Actually, that's an ongoing project. So far
we've eliminated over 52 Billion humans from
the planet Earth time-stream. (Including
several prominant probability-Earths and
considerable redundancies through corrective
dishomicide.
The trouble is, that at around 6 billion left
we're encountering the law of diminishing
returns: it's almost impossible to extinguish
a human without wiping out *some* Yetisyny
chromosomes.
What this means is that sending back agents to
just exterminate them was just the first step.
Now we have to go *way* back to prevent the
intermingling of the human and Yetisyny lines
in the first place.
And let me tell you, killing people is a lot
easier than keeping them from fucking.
--
Help me Landru.
Help me get her out of my heart.
-- nu-monet
> ...so remember, whenever you see a cross say a silent
> prayer for Judas, who was really the savior of us all.
I can't do that. For one thing, Judas repented at the '98 Seattle
Devival. A crowd of 200 people bore witness to Judas giving Jesus
thirty silver pieces (well, Susan B Anthony dollars, close enough) to
get back on Jesus' good side. Between that and you not attending the
Long March, I guess you're pretty fucked now. Way to go! WHOOOOT!!!
Her Ladyship Lilith
--
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When I lick myself, it's usually just a little reward for a job well done.
-- Joe Cosby, <b5dllu0fc3nvbctp8...@4ax.com>
DOBBS' LONG MARCH SEPT 13-15 SEATTLE!!! http://ssucc.com/longmarch.html
If you had killed Jesus, before he became a well known religous
kook, we'd have no new testament, no gospels, no verses
about the Jews, no religously orientated antisemitism, no pogroms,
no Martin Luther and his hateful anti-semitism, no Hitler,
no Nazis using anti-semitism to gain power, no WWII, no triumph
of Stalinism post WWII, no Cold War, no nukes by the tens of thousands,
no vicious dictators thriving playing off the fascist West
against the Stalinist East.
Its all Jesus's fault we don't live in Utopia today.
Cheerful Charlie
Have you read "Behold The Man" by Michael Moorcock? A fine book on the
subject of Jesus and time travel. Awesome.
--
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and
cook.
- Quentin Crisp
> In article <Xns928DB1F359...@172.16.63.5>, Rev. Andre Brothel
> <undeada...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> ...so remember, whenever you see a cross say a silent
>> prayer for Judas, who was really the savior of us all.
>
> I can't do that. For one thing, Judas repented at the '98 Seattle
> Devival. A crowd of 200 people bore witness to Judas giving Jesus
> thirty silver pieces (well, Susan B Anthony dollars, close enough) to
> get back on Jesus' good side. Between that and you not attending the
> Long March, I guess you're pretty fucked now. Way to go! WHOOOOT!!!
>
>
> Her Ladyship Lilith
>
I really want to apologise for not attending too...here I was all about to
have this huge birthday bash, and the love of my life takes off with my
best friend. Dobbs got me back, that fucker. That's ok, I'm gonna key his
wife and fuck his car to get back at him.
> I really want to apologise for not attending too...here I was all about to
> have this huge birthday bash, and the love of my life takes off with my
> best friend. Dobbs got me back, that fucker. That's ok, I'm gonna key his
> wife and fuck his car to get back at him.
Wait, are you going to key Dobbs' wife and fuck Dobbs' car--or are you
going to key your best friend's wife and fuck your best friend's car?
This is a matter of severe theological importance. You should seriously
consider fucking Dobbs' car, but then keying your best friend's wife,
BUT NOT VICE VERSA. "Bob" is very protective of the finish on his
Connie and will kick your ass if you mess it up.