crusade

[John Lundy]

Well said, Doug.

I'm in your corner too Arne.  Any chance of this debate being conducted 
more courteously.  Some guy posted a message saying "if you can't stand 
strong exchanges, fuck off" or words to that effect.  I may be wrong here, 
but doesn't that fundamentally undermine the entire raison d'etre for the 
existence of the list?

As our hero sez, whatever's fair, but I'm getting pretty close to folding 
my cards and going home.

On Tuesday, 18 September 2001 06:38, Doug Millison 
[SMTP:nopynching at yahoo.com] wrote:
> Arne,
>
> Please don't let a couple of war-mongering bigots
> dissuade you from posting. Their tactics -- like those
> of the terrorists they profess to despise -- would
> silence your calls for tolerance, patience,
> understanding. It's akin to the kind of thinking that
> has led, quite unfortunately, to several killings of
> Muslims (or people might appear, to ignorant yahoos,
> to be Muslims, among them one bearded and turbanned
> Sikh) in recent days -- the anti-Arab backlash has
> reached such proportions that the Director of the FBI,
> in his press conference this morning, postponed
> crowing about the bang-up job that agency is doing to
> track down and eradicate evil from the world, in order
> to issue a stern call for U.S. residents to refrain
> from such hate crimes, warning that the FBI would not
> tolerate them.  He didn't offer any insight into the
> tactics  the FBI might use to prevent hate crimes, nor
> did he address in any detail the example that the FBI
> has set in the past by targeting innocent citizens and
> investigating or otherwise harassing them in the
> absence of any evidence of wrongdoing (cf. FBI files
> on Thomas Pynchon -- so I've heard--, The Rev'd Martin
> Luther King, Jr., and many others).
>
> -Doug
>
>
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