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From: Freddy Frypp <JAMES-CUENO@*********.EDU>
Subject: Cold Fragger
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:13:41 CST
>>>>>[I really don't want to sound like a cold fragger, but it helps
get ME through life. (Read: DISCLAIMER in fifty fraggin' meter
flaming letters.)

Hey everybody: GIVE IT UP!

Sure, the body count is getting high around here, and I have sympathy
for the friends and family of those who have been lost.

I am neither.

Fatalities are a part of shadowrunning.

Ask yourselves this: how many sec guards have been collectively
killed by the people who post here?

I realize that there have been lots of people who deserved to
die, but what about the slots that were just trying to make a living
to support their family?

How many of you really know what a megacorp pays its security goons?
The really low ones. The jokers they put on the perimeter with only
a Manhunter, a flashlight and a radio to stop a team that's cybered
to the gills along with a whizzer or three from hitting the
facility....

Just about nothing. Maybe just enough that it pays better than to
work at the Stuffer Shack. Some corps even have the guts to pay 'em
in corp scrip, and that doesn't get 'em anything but whatever the
corp wants to sell 'em, at the corp's price. And I just want you to
think about their friends, their family and their co-workers.

You know what happens when you geek a sec guard? You piss off his
buddies. They express their concern to the widow, go to the funeral
and then get some illegal weapons to carry on duty with them. Things
just got more dangerous because they want revenge. They go on with
their lives and keep the anger inside. That anger gets vented on the
next piece of criminal sleaze that makes the mistake of getting in
his sights.

You need an example? Just think of what's going on right now... Some
asshole has grabbed a kid. No better weapon than family. And what's
happening around here? People are getting pissed. And pissed people
are working their asses off to find this sick fragger and kill the
sonuvaslitch. They're not sitting on their duffs expressing their
condolences, they're getting something done.

Thus endth the sermon.]<<<<<
-- Freddy Frypp (09:00:00 / 09-27-55)
California Free State Matrix Uplink #5150

>>>>>[And don't bother wasting my time and the time of everyone else
here by telling me what kind of a....hmmmm....cold fragger (golly gee
whiz that sound's original!!!!) I am. I already know. And people
here already know that I am capable of saying and doing lots
of things that piss lots of people off. Lately, you've been seeing
the "P.C." Freddy. Anybody who was here around the time Jac
introduced me to this place knows what kind of a jerk I can be.]<<<<<
-- Freddy Frypp (09:03:17 / 09-27-55)
California Free State Matrix Uplink #5150

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