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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Black is amongst you here, too!
Message-ID: <238@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 02:25:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 02:25:45 1985
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black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) says:
>Gentlepeople:
>
>     It came to my attention indirectly today that some of you out there
>seem to think that myself and one of my co-workers here at DEC are a
>couple of (explitive meaning " anal pore".)  Well, I suppose you're 
>all entitled to your personal opinions.  Just as I am entitled to mine, and
>Ken is entitled to his.
> ...
>  Aawww, too bad!  I've cracked a few Ivory
>Towers!  It's fun, believe me.  It gives all you poor sheltered college
>students a taste of what the Real World is like.  I'm just one little 
>voice---on the other side of the ivy is a million of us, three million if
>you count the NRA, and thirty million if you count all the firearms owners.
>
>     So you don't like the concepts of Christian Identity?  Hold on and I'll
>send you a dime so you can call your chaplain.  The Christian Identity 
>movement is big enough to include groups such as the Worldwide Church of 
>God and the Mormons, not to mention the various smaller splinter churches
>and other individuals.  But if you ask a certain group of 5,781,000
>people, most of whom practice absolutely no religion, we're all a bunch
>of Nazis.  I don't have to teach the Jews who the Chosen People are---they
>already know.  It's becoming easier and easier to convince Christians.
>
>     So sleep well tonight, one and all.  We probably don't have too many more
>left.
>
>     --Don Black
>

Let me tell you a few things, Mr. Blank (pardon my freudian slip)
Black, for one thing, you and your kind will never be able to crack my
ivory tower.  (Sorry to have to spoil your fun.)  I'd rather be up
there in that ivory tower all by myself than down in the mud and grime
you believe in--I don't care how many of "you" there are.  That ivory
tower is made of all the best things of humanity and I'll cling to it
with my dying breath if I have to.  That ivory tower raises me above
the bigotry and prejudice of people like you, and because you *can't*
crack it, you want to destroy it. (Probably why you think it's so
fun.)  But you never will--you can't!  Only I can by sinking to your
level.  But because I *know* you for what you are you can't trap me
into your morass.

And don't you try to link people who own guns to your "cause".  They
don't all think like you.  Some of them are the gentlest people in the
world, and I love them.  And when the time comes, those guns of theirs
will probably be up in a few ivory towers defending them against you
and yours.

One more thing, keep the Mormons out of this discussion.  Any Mormon
living his religion would shun you.  We believe in avoiding the very
appearance of evil--and, man, do you appear evil!

As for sleeping well, if there were less fanatics like you around I
would definitely sleep better.


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                                                       Terry Grevstad
                                         Network Research Corporation
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