Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!md3b+ From: md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: I have here.. Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 23:49:28 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 We don't have a good news reader here, so I have to type this manually... Larry Campbell said in one of his previous posts, very sarcastically, that we shouldn't bother posting about things that happens before certain people were born. No, I will answer your rhetoric question. The whole idea was that many of the students here don't remember quotes such as those. I learned about McCarthy from my parents, I think in school he was mentioned once, and nothing of his "infamous" speech was given. Sure I know stuff that happened then, But I don't know exact things. I don't know were I was when certain people where shot. I do know were I was when the space shuttle blew up. You can't expect such a diverse audience, here on the net, to all know a speech that was given before most of us were born. It is not stressed in school, like "four score and seven years ago..." Nor should it be, the general idea behind McCarthy's idiotic behavior should be looked at. Please don't believe yourself a better individual because you have years on people, and I won't do the same because I think I am younger. -Matt