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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: 22 Jan 88 11:46:23 GMT
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In article <8801210557.AA01465@oreo> oreo!gsmith@violet.berkeley.edu (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>>In article <8801200541.AA19851@garnet.berkeley.edu> oreo!gsmith@violet.berkeley.edu (Gene Ward Smith) writes:

>  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.

Anyone who knows me, or who has been reading my articles for several
years, knows that these positions are not mine, this style is not mine,
and these articles are not mine.  Far be it from me to deride someone
who mocks the idiocy of someone laying in front of a moving train by
calling him bloodthirsty or stupid or "facist" or a Nazi. And fur