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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: Censorship and unc!tim
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 15:37:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 15:37:32 1984
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	> >  If Tim had posted the infamous BLKTRAN ...

	...

	> So you're saying that it's perfectly allright to insult the Lord,
	> but not allright to tell a joke?

It's not a matter of whether it's "alright" for a person to do this or that.
If a person is being punished for something, it's only fair that he be
informed of the reason for the punishment.  It *does* seem, from what I've
seen and heard (which is, admittedly, not the entire story), that the
charges against Tim were never explicitly stated, and that new charges kept
materializing as Tim refuted old ones.  Whether or not we agree with Tim's
world-view, it seems plain that he was treated unfairly.
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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