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From: gsmith@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year.
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Date: 21 Jan 88 05:57:24 GMT
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In article <2197@auscso.UUCP> johnm@auscso.UUCP (John B. Meaders, Jr.) writes:
>In article <8801200541.AA19851@garnet.berkeley.edu> oreo!gsmith@violet.berkeley.edu (Gene Ward Smith) writes:

>I love it how the label fascist gets thrown around on the net.  If somebody
>says something you don't agree with then he/she is a fascist.

  If the jackboots fit, then wear them. A lot of people seem
delighted that Willson lost his legs, and are quite ready to
defend the engineers even if they were "playing chicken", which
is probable.  I think this is exactly the kind of mentality which
makes a good Nazi.

>Only a stupid
>idiot lays down in front of a train.

 Why not find out what happened before calling someone else an
idiot. It doesn't make *you* look very bright.

  I think it is hilarious that the
>engineers are suing the dweeb that thought he could stop a train.

  I think it is pitiful you are so bloodthirsty and uninformed.
And I think ignorance and bloody-mindedness is a bad combination,
a dangerous combination, and it is, I submit, the combination
which produces "facists" and many of the other depressing things
we like to throw at each other as labels. Instead of carping
about my nastiness, you should take a long, hard look in the
mirror and think about your value system. Do you feel, secretly
or not so secretly, "Good! I'm glad he lost his legs!". Do you
dismiss the claims of Contra atrocities out of hand as not being
relevant to a world of Realpolitik and Soviet containment? Then
you are on your way to being a "facist" whether you like the
label or not.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
    "*That* the world is, is the mystical." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein