NP Neo-Nazis on the Net

[Vaska]

Friends and foes alike: since Alan Westrop takes me to task for bringing up
an off-topic issue, with alledgedly no relation to Thomas Pynchon and his
works, I'll now come out and say that several of the people who have
publicly responded to my posting of the referendum notice appear to be
suffering from an advanced case of the *Pokler syndrome*, in its 1990s
virulently pandemic form.  Since most of us have read _GR_, the allusion as
well as its appropriatness should be obvious.  Those who haven't read _GR_
are welcome to check it out.

Except for the first individual who contacted me personally, and who shall
remain nameless, everyone else who's done so over the last couple of days
seems fully resistant to the said syndrome.  I do hope the resistent ones
pravail: we all know what happened all across Europe, beginning in Germany,
when that failed to occur some decades ago.

Alan, I won't be drawn into any puerile bickering with you, which is what
your post amounts to and which you seem to enjoy so much.  The issue in
question deserves a lot better than the silly ad feminem and anti-Canadian
sneers plus  some truly irrelevant cyber-bluster you began with and have not
managed to leave behind you.  Paul Murphy's recent response to your post
covers the same ground I did in mine and does it both well and with
exemplary politeness.    

Vaska

P.S.  It was Radio *B92*, as well as Radio Index, actually.  Radio Boom92 is
still off the air.






At 08:55 AM 7/13/97 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>An interesting "response" to the Netzis can be found on the Web-based
>>Nizkor Project.  Don't have the URL handy, but a search for "Nizkor" should
>>do the trick.  
>
>Yes, a very good site -- I don't have a URL either, but links to Nizkor
>and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have thoughtfully been provided by the
>foax who maintain the Zundel site at www.webcom.com/ezundel/ :-)
>
>There was a controversy a few years ago when the German government
>wanted ISPs like AOL to block access to this site for users in Germany.
>Turns out there was no technical way to accomplish this, webcom is
>in Southern California where German and Canadian laws don't apply,
>the German position prompted lots of U.S. folks to put up mirrors of
>the Zundel site to protest censorship, the whole thing generated
>lots of free publicity for Zundel, and the site is alive and well.
>Internet 1, Statists 0.
>
>An impartial history of the controversy is available via links at
>http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/chrc-zundel.html
>
>(More recently, Serbian thugs shut down Radio B29, and they simply
>switched to broadcasting with RealAudio over the Internet, likewise
>generating additional publicity, as I'm sure some <ahem...> here
>remember quite well.  Internet 2, Statists 0.)
>
>Anyway, this is my final post on this topic.  The only relevance I see
>to the p-list is that a link to the Zundel site will now be embedded
>in the list archives, sorta like Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon.
>(A-and, I'm like, rilly, totally, looking forward to chatting with Murthy
>and Andrew in a jail cell in Canada, where we will no doubt be extradited
>to face charges of Conspiracy to Encourage the Transport of Electrons Which
>May Incite Behaviour Which May Lead To Actions Which May Be Unlawful In
>Some Jurisdictions, popularly known as the "1997 Poisoning of Minds Act.")
>
>--
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