http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17193.html There's Something About Gary by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. 7.Jan.99.PST For decades Gary North has made a living predicting modern society will end in panic and ruin. In 1980, he forecast rationing of housing and a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He warned his followers to buy "gold, silver, a safe place outside the major cities." Then AIDS became the threat: "In 1992, we will run out of available hospital beds.... The world will eventually panic," he wrote in 1987. Now North has found Y2K and a skittish audience receptive to predictions of doom. A recent advertisement for his Remnant Review newsletter proclaims: "A bank run like no other will bankrupt banks all over the world in 1999." [...] "He wants to make sure the banking system crashes. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," Clarkson says. Out of this wreckage, North and many other Christian Reconstructionist men hope to build a harsh Biblical order where sinners, such as adulterers and gay men, can be brutally punished, even executed, preferably by stoning. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
