Acceptable loss of life and the fed..................

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Need your input on this. We have all wondered, why the government spin. Last night the old light bulb went on. This country could not prepare for y2k even at one year out. The supply lines could not handle it and the government knows this. Panic buying would begin. The supply lines could never catch up. So the question is,,,,, has the government come up with an acceptable death toll? Could this be the reason that we are not getting any solid facts. We just get enough that some of us will prepare?????

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), July 20, 1999

Answers

Scotty, your tinfoil hat needs adjustment. The only people who are going to die next year because of Y2K are, well, nobody is going to die because of Y2K. This won't stop your fantasy of course...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

Just had my tinfoil hat tuned. It is now y2k compliant!!!!!!!!!!!

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

One person will die... its Y2K proshit. Either he dies from starvation, deprivation, or a heart attack because he has to find a other place where he can harras people. After all, psycotics like him need the thrill he gets from doing so to survive.

-- justme (justme@justme.net), July 20, 1999.

[not one person is going to die from y2k]

who/what is this y2kpro??? not from this planet, thats for sure ..

-- lou (lanny1@ix.netcom.com), July 20, 1999.


who/what is this y2kpro???

Seems like "standard issue East-coast liberal" to me. Kind of like Bill Press on CNN "Crossfire", but less educated and articulate.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 20, 1999.



"lou",

"Y2KPro" is a Closet Wacko From Waco on, "A Mission From God" (his own words) and is always right. . .

Here is an example. Although originally couched in sarcasm, the illness motivating this character is apparent.

I heard that the UN troops along the Mexican border considered wild dogs as delicacies - so, no need to worry. When TSHTF we will be secure in the knowledge that Spot will be providing sustenance to the NWO.

-- Y2K Pro (2@461.com), March 16, 1999.

Here's another:

I'll be laughing at the death lovers cowering in their bunkers from the middle of Waco Texas.

-- Y2K Pro (2@641.com), May 31, 1999.



-- Hardliner (searcher@internet.com), July 20, 1999.

FLAME AWAY, the answer to your question can be found if you follow the "body bag" trail. The accepted death toll needs to match the amount of body bags in stock plus any additional orders. I think GN had something on that some time ago under "Martial Law" and/or "Military" categories.

-- George (jvilches@sminter.com.ar), July 20, 1999.

What is up with this sick fantasy over how many people will die because of Y2K? Do you hope that people will die and hope that anyone who is a polly will die a most agonizing death?

Cause I want to know how many doomers will die in their underground bunkers because of argon gas? I had my bunker checked last week and all my bunker buddies told me I was insane. So I hope they suffer a argon death because they would not believe the warning I gave. They had time to prepare for it and when they go rampaging towards my bunker because they know they can be safe in mine, they will be meeting my best friend, ol' dead eye.

*Please note the sarcasm and parable that this story is telling.

-- MrWayCool (thisisasickfantasy@whyaskwhy.com), July 20, 1999.


Any number would be acceptable, providing the government bunkers have been appropriately stocked. They'll decide to throw the table-scraps from the military stashes just before it rots. The only question is, who's side will the armed forces take? Our glorious Commander in Cheat or the Patriots who were smart enough to prepare?

I find it difficult to believe *anybody* would even ponder over that question. Why, even Billy-Bop and Gore-ya are spinnin' the heck out of that one. Mister President has already *publicly* portrayed us as being "religious nuts, hiding out, hell-bent on destroying the banking system, collecting arms, with an uneducated 'hick' mentality"

I kid you not. Anyone who can't read the writing on the wall about this "THUG'S" intentions will be of little use until they recover from their comatose stage!

If we see civil unrest in nearly ANY form......we will witness war. No ifs ands or buts about it. Contribute to the cause, or sit back and watch, but stay out of the road.

Got Skoal?

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 20, 1999.


I should like to suggest to MrWayCool that you conduct a serious 'reality check' and dismount from your 'speak no evil' high horse!

You're about to be caught up in something that might offend your little self. Not that I give a monkey's rump in *JULY 1999*, or anything. Go for it, happy boy!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 20, 1999.



Flame, might be a way to rescue the Social Security system...

-- No Way Jose (lurkinghere@ho.me), July 20, 1999.

Take the number of people who die each day for whatever reason and multiply that by 10,000. How many deaths each day could be prevented if people would just pay attention? And, what's the difference if we all die today or die tomorrow, the grim reaper will meet up with all of us some day.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

Nope! Wrong answer. Most of the die-offs will be younger people (aka "clueless gen-Xers")

It will just exacerbate the problem with SS.

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), July 20, 1999.


Flame,

Yes, this is the answer. There's simply NO WAY everyone can prepare. There are enough hints for some to prepare. They don't WANT uus to die, but what can they do??? NOTHING. That's why it's in our own hands at this point. Some will prepare.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), July 20, 1999.


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You reap what you sow.

-- (get@readyforit.yeah), July 20, 1999.



"MrWayCool",

Your "sarcasm and parable" would have been lots more effective had you referred to radon gas, which is naturally occurring and harmful (although the best evidence currently suggests that it will eventually cause lung cancer, and not death in the short term) and does naturally accumulate in underground spaces such as cellars and crawl spaces and, yes, even bunkers.

Argon gas, on the other hand, is not so common and in basically inert in the chemical sense.

I find you "parable" particularly hilarious as one of Dr. Gary North's literary critics has suggested (in print) that Gary's possible exposure to radon gas as a college student has contributed to his "not quite mainstream" thoughts and positions! You'd be a lot "Way Cool-er" if you had a better education in basic science. . .

-- Hardliner (searcher@internet.com), July 20, 1999.


FA (Scotty):

If you go to the Food archive and search on Notes, you should come up with Notes on the Food Supply Hearings. was that back in January? Somewhere around there. Anyway. one of the attendees said that it takes nine months for food manufacturers to go from perceiving a need for more food to actually getting it in the stores.

Now you know why I think we might see a change in the government's tune in September--if the harvest comes in as expected, if the extra machinery was delivered, if the extra help was found, if, if, if. . .

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), July 20, 1999.


Fine, I made a mistake. Considering the error as compared to all the mistakes Gary North has made(got AIDS?) it doesn't matter. But that doesn't matter because you want Y2K to prove to people that you were right about everything.

If a billion people die, thats good because it will make you sleep at night. I got revenge on those that never listened to me you will think to yourself. Even the 700 Club went Polly on you all this morning. Probably the same people that got De Jaeger.

The fringe movement of Y2K has proven itself in July 1999 that you all are once again on the fringe. That Gary North will have to find some new crisis to sell subscriptions for.

Even consider that Art Bell is selling a survival book this December, but its not about Y2K. What is it about then you ask, well its going to be a book on how to survive a coming ice age. Straight from the pages of the Wall Street Journal on April 30th.

Ask yourself though why would Art Bell be selling that in December? Wouldn't people be busy in their extremely final y2k preps? Knowing that Art Bell and Gary North are quote on quote, "In bed with each other." It could be an assumption that Gary North has found his next hot topic issue.

But I don't expect this forum to grasp that since devote following of a leader makes you turn a blind eye to his or her faults. Gary North even insults his own followers because they don't "GI." The guy posted the VCR story from Stephen Poole that was about how the electric grid will fail. If Gary North is so smart, didn't he realize it?

-- MrWayCool (whocares@whatyouthink.com), July 20, 1999.


GOVERNMENT Y2K FRINGE EXTREMISTS WARN OF Y2K PROBLEMS!!!!!
HOLD ANTI-AMERICAN HEARINGS AND TAKE TESTIMONIES!!!

=> U.S Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem

-- dot (senate@dotgov.y2k), July 20, 1999.


Gee does this mean that Sen. Bennett is a rightwing extremist bent on making a buck out of fear mongering? Because some of what he says agrees with some of what GN and Art Bell say. According to the above logic ANYONE who takes Y2k seriously is an opportunistic extremist. This turns the Federal Reserve into a close bosom buddy of the NWO. Gimme a break.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

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