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From: gsmith@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.net-people,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Libertarian Theory and Libertarian Practice: A Portrait From Life
Message-ID: <8709180834.AA26333@ronzoni>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 04:34:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 04:34:54 1987
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Reply-To: ronzoni!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith)
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Keywords: Libertarianism, Judaism, Censorship
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In article <341@ddsw1.UUCP> era@ddsw1.UUCP (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
>In article <1554@chinet.UUCP> rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner) writes:
>>>>Gene has tried to make this into a political argument, claiming that the
>>>>issue is "libertarianism." 

>It is totally irrelevant that the people who censored me and harassed
>me and eventually succeeded in getting my password pulled on the Well
>and on Chinet were mostly Libertarians and that I happen to be Jewish.

>It is only a coincidence that the only people who get their passwords
>pulled by usenet sites happen to be Jewish, and that the people who do it
>happen to be Libertarians who, except in the case of Jews, pretend to
>advocate "absolute free speech."

  For the record and in the possibly mistaken
 belief that someone might be interested I should like to say:

  (1) Matthew Wiener's net-access problems have nothing
      to do with his ethnicity.

  (2) Rhonda to the contrary, I was not writing "diatribes" against 
      Libertarianism, but asking certain questions relating to the
      nature of its commitment to liberty.

  (3) While I often disagree with what Mark Ethan Smith has to say,
      I think he should be allowed to continue saying it. If
      Libertarians kicked him off that would seem to add to my problems 
      and questions about this philosophy. I hope my making
      this remark is not taken to be another "diatribe".

"This paragraph is why I have felt free to insult you."  -- Tim Maroney
  ucbvax!bosco!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720