SCN: response to er-chan

[Joe Mabel]

I am going to reply to er-chan one last time and then I am going to stop,
because there is no point to arguing at length with someone who is talking like
a fool.

Rod Clark does not edit the home page, and hasn't for a year. All I can say is,
I'm sure glad you don't edit it.

Are you familiar with the term McCarthyism? Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin
circa 1950) attacked first the State Department, and later the military with
(largely baseless) charges of Communist infiltration. His chief tactic was to
claim to have the names of dozens of known Communists who had infiltrated the
State Department, although of course he never shared these lists. He
successfully built a major climate of fear in the country. He successfully
hounded many innocent people out of theri jobs, some of them to their deaths.
Oh, and I must admit, he probably did manage to get a few guilty ones while he
was at it, but so few it can almost be written off to coincidence.

er-chan writes:
> So you AMericans feel freedom of speech
> means leaving up links to suicide bomber recruitment
> or terrorist web-sites?
I will ask one last time: can you point at any such actual site? As far as Ican
tell, it would qualify as incitement to criminal activity, and would merit not
merely de-linking, but criminal investigation and prosecution. If it exists,
point it out. If not, stop waving the bloody flag. Put up or shut up.



er-chan writes:
> The sites that were refused links(there were some) I don't
> have access to the archiuves(the webmaster probably does).
> You know that don't you?
Frankly, given what else you've been saying, I see no reason to believe an
asertion from you with no concrete content to back it up.


A far as I know, anyone ca pass a site on to an SCN topic editor, and a link
will be made. If you have content, pass it on. To my knowledge, the only reason
SCN turns down links is  irrelevance to the Seattle area or blatant
commercialism (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

If you have a collection of links you want to add, and they are not obviously
relevant to Seattle, I suggest that you make a page of your own and get SCN to
link to it. If someone is misguided enough to turn you down, I'll be on your
side in tht fight, even if it leaves me feeling like the ACLU defending the
KKK's right to free speech. Which, by the way, I believe in.


Those who know me will know that it is not typical of me to call a fellow SCN-er
a fool. If anyone feels I'm out of line here, I will gladly discuss, but not on
the main public e-mail list.

And unlike er-chan, I will sign my actual name to my email, and even a link to
my web site, in case anyone is unlear exactly who I am.

Joe Mabel
http://www.speakeasy.org/~jmabel

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