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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reply to a cheap shot
Message-ID: <767@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 15:48:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.767
Posted: Thu Sep  5 15:48:38 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Sep-85 09:56:05 EDT
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>>		     ******************************
>>	You are surprized at the attitude of DEC people when 
>>	they employ the likes of Ken Arndt??
>>	And don't forget, Don Black!
>>		     ******************************
>>		Don Black works for DEC ??  
>>	I would think that the (toilet) training
>>	costs for him would outway the tax credits
>>	they get for employing a disabled citizen !
>>		     ******************************

>     And you jerks call yourselves Professionals?????	[DON BLACK]
      ------------------------------------------------------------
    In this case, I am 100% behind Comrade Black.  The treatment he  has
received, in snide and cowardly references, is stupid and pointless.  It
isn't that anybody's rights  are  being  violated,  since  none  of  the
contributors  involved  has the power to shut him up.  But this class of
"argument" is frivolous and counterproductive.  It increases  the  man's
stature  and believability, and lessens the impact of ANYONE'S arguments
against him.  I for one do not wish to be identified with such  childish
outbursts.

    If any bona-fides are necessary, I'll note that I consider Don Black
a professional spreader of disinformation, unfortunately out of  control
and of unsound methods.  It seems to me that any rational directorate in
KGB would terminate his assignment.  Clearly,  this  has  not  happened;
perhaps  his  continuing  postings  epitomize my faulty understanding of
Soviet strategy.  Be he right or wrong for our friends in  the  Kremlin,
he  is not a buffoon.  People treating him as one do themselves (and us)
a great disservice.  Kindly desist!  

>     	I make no apologies.  Clamor for my silence all you want.  
>	If you dare.
>						     --Don Black
      ------------------------------------------------------------
    It is unclear whether Mr. Black  is  more  dangerous  in  public  or
private.  Those wishing his "silence" would be well advised to adopt the
methods he himself espouses.  Those require courage and  dedication  not
evident in the silly postings we have seen recently.

    I have no doubt he knows whereof he speaks.   Details to follow.
-- 

Oded Feingold     MIT AI Lab.   545 Tech Square    Cambridge, Mass. 02139
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