Top Ten scapegoats after TSHTF

10. Hoarders.

9. Terrorists.

8. Foreign governments.

7. Hackers.

6. Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

5. Greedy Wall Street speculators.

4. Sadaam/Gary North (tie)

3. Lax programmers

2. Christians.

and the #1 scapegoat:

1. Skoal chewing rednecks

-- a (a@a.a), October 11, 1999

Answers

Sheeeeesh! I fall into categories 10, 7, 6, 5, and 2 already!

Maybe I'll start in category 1 just to make it complete as possible.

MFU

-- Man From Uncle 1999 (mfu1999@hotmail.com), October 11, 1999.

Then there's the Top Ten People or Thing Who Shall Remain Blameless:

10)President-for-Life Clinton

9)The Senate

8)The Congress

7)Anyone currently Running for Office

6)Anyone currently NOT running for Office

5)John "I-Didn't-Know" Koskinem

4)Chairmain/Money Czar Greenspan

3)FEMA

2)Socks the Cat

and the #1 Person or Thing That Shall Remain Blameless

Her Royal Highness, Empress Hillary

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), October 11, 1999.

Nah..the government has already startet its "CYBER-TERRORISM" bullshit. Not that i think cyber-terrorism isn't a real threat, but I think that if ANY government systems fail..."hackers" will take the blame. Corporations will simply blame each other and or International ties.

Who will the public blame? Anyone who worked on "computers".

Im changing my official title from "Senior Systems Engineer" to Janitor.

-- Cory Hill (coryh@strategic-services.net), October 11, 1999.

You don't think the two dollar Bill's will escape the wrath? It's the economy........

1) Bill Klinton 2) Bill Gates 3) News Media 4) Government Officials in General 5) Alan Greenspan 6) Hoarder (maybe) 7) CEOs 8) Programmers 9) Christians 10)Cyberterrorists

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), October 11, 1999.

You missed a very real future scapegoat. Clinton will do anything to save his hide. Notice how JK the head of Lie2K does all of the top level talking for the government while our techie Vice-President is quiet? Senor Koskinen is going to be a household curse-word in 2000 thanks to Bill.

Friends of Bill Go to Jail Bill and Hill Don't Inhale.

-- Dana (A_non_o_Moose@xxx.com), October 11, 1999.

1. Bill Gates

-- Mr. Adequate (mr@adequate.com), October 12, 1999.

THat's silly.

After the market implodes and gold goes to the moon, they'll blame the usual suspects, it's a long tradition going back all through the middle ages. Allegedly it was even popular in Babylon and Egypt. You know who, you're just embarassed to admit it could happen here.

Not too late to emigrate to Mexico (as if that would help)

-- hunchback. (quasimodo@belltwor.com), October 12, 1999.

History shows us that it's fun to kill the rich,even if it's not their fault

-- apokoliptik (Apokoliptik@yahoo.com), October 12, 1999.