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Henry Musikar gravity at nicom.com
Fri Mar 14 16:35:32 CST 1997


Fakhereddine -

Guess you don't know me. No way am I suggesting we clean up the list. 
I'm completely against censorship, which exactly why I concerned 
about young Andrew. Perhaps you've heard the joke about the kid who 
says he wants a watch for his birthday, so his parents let him. Not 
MY idea of parenting.

On 14 Mar 97 at 15:56, Fakhereddine Berrada wrote:

> Dear Henry, there's a whole in your bucket; so fix it... Are you asking us
> to start policing the list, and do other people's jobs for them? Not that
> GR is or should be the reference in such matters, but doesn't it suggest
> repeatedly that the System's survival depends on its feeding the
> 'children' the *healthy* values of its ideology, hence its
> self-perpetuation. Maybe Andrew's presence among us -IF HE IS REALLY A
> CHILD!!!!!!!- is healthy and should be welcome and its benefit would be to
> make us aware of how much we take for granted a lot of the stuff we say on
> the list. I am not even saying we should clean up our talk and language;
> maybe Andrew may have sg to teach us on that subject. 
<snip>

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner



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