X-Message-Number: 1376
Subject: CRYONICS - reply
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:53:21 
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Mr. Charles Platt invited a response from Alcor members after placing a very
careless message on the net in response to Keith Henson.  He then placed
another message apologizing for misquoting Keith regarding the patient care
fund.  I am not very good at confrontations.  I was going to decline the
invitation to respond until a friend of mine, Scott Herman, called me at work
today to tell me he was resigning from Alcor.
 
Mr. Platt, Scott Herman used to sit at the controls of a Titan missile when
he worked for SAC.  His job was to refrain from pushing the button until the
proper authorities gave the order.  He was trained to differentiate between a
genuine message to launch, and a false message sent in by, lets say, some
nutcake terrorist organization.  I don't think he would launch himself out of
Alcor unless the people who had true authority felt that there was a genuine
threat to Alcor itself.  Those people in authority do not include you, Saul
Kent, Paul Wakfer, Eric Klein or Mike Darwin, at least not according to
Scott.   
 
I assume that by provoking Keith Henson you wanted to provoke those members
who value Keith's judgement and value his presence on the Board of Directors.
In my case, you won't get a lot of "Parkmanage".  I just want to say that I
am very dismayed, with the recent coup, the people behind it, and with you.

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