Xref: utzoo news.misc:6612 comp.admin.policy:376 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991Jun9.075642.2277@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 9 Jun 91 07:56:42 GMT References: <284D074D.4AD0@tct.com> <1991Jun6.215348.18519@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1374@zinn.MV.COM> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 56 mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) writes: > xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >> Hitler died by his own hand in a bunker when >> telling the same lie over and over turned out not >> to be a way to convince the world. Is there a >> bunker in our Johnny's future? > To digress greatly: > Hitler used the Big Lie to come to power, and > tried to use force to take over the world (not > necessarily to convince it of anything). He > suffered a military defeat, but proved how very > well the Big Lie does work. It was proven many > times before, and many times since. Well, our sociopathy poster child is still on the net, which must count as a major victory for mendacity after the powers that be at umich.edu met to consider whether or not to pull the net feed of ddmi.com, and failed to do so despite the scandal and legal exposure providing him a feed was bringing on that institution (and continues to bring, I suppose). Of course, he's had to change his domain name by registering as michigan.com, change his user-ID from jpp to jp, very likely wheedle new feeds from the more gullible sysadmins of the net, weave a skein of lies even a two year old would roll laughing on the floor to hear, make his partner appear a fool and liar as well in public, but still he keeps dancing on the highwire over the pungi stick filled pit. It is worth noting that the Big Lie of blaming the Jews for the failures of Weimar Republic economics wasn't the lie that brought Hitler to put a gun to his head, it was the tawdry little lies, ending in the lie that a failed painter knew more about the conduct of war than experienced ganerals, and including the lie of a peace treaty with Stalin so quickly violated, and that surrender was unthinkable, the Third Reich could prevail over superior force after the freeing of Paris. Similarly, it may not be John Palmer's big lie that everything he's screwed up to date was someone else's fault that brings him down in the end, but just the little lie that he's learned from his mistakes not to try to be a big shot on the net without the skills or ethical understanding to carry it off. Kent, the man from xanth.