Leo wrote:
Clint, that's an interesting collection of thoughts that you have
there -

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:48:26 -0500, "Clint" rattlehead at computron
dot net wrote:


But, to answer your question: did you

do something illegal? Of course not. Insensitive, foolish and
intellectually bankrupt, perhaps - none of which are punishable
offences.

AH... nice dodge.... as you see, the very point of bringing up
the fact that "freedom of speech is frequently curtailed today,
such as the following examples..." would ONLY be brought
up to imply that what I did was NOT protected by the concept
of freedom of speech.


Not a dodge at all - you don't need freedom of speech to protect your
right to rant in public. I guess reading comprehension was dropped
from the curriculum in your P.S. district early on.....along with
Civics.

Did you mean civility?

I put it to you; if this is NOT the case, if there is NO insinuation
of same, then WHY bring up the fact that there are certain
extreme cases where free speech is limited or halted, when I claim
the right to do so? Just for the purpose of conversation? I think
such a claim is paper thin and WEAK at best.


Huh? Can you gve an example of when your free speech was curtailed?
And by whom? Do you hear voices? Did they do it?

As you posted earlier Leo, the claim of suppression of free speech is
alway pulled out whenever the argument is about to be lost - by some.


I suspect that the Nazi

(not the euphemistic full 'National Socialist' name that you now use
in this post) reference

the two are the same; but I digress, I am not sure what point you
are making by trying to distinguish the two


Not really - one carries more negative feeelings than the other. As
you know.

was used because it was the only card left to

play in an otherwise empty hand.

and at THAT point you are no longer discussing fact and are in
fact using opinion. The truth of the matter is that the PCTA crowd
is long out of factual support and credible reasoning to keep
the morse code testing; they abandon any further hopes now
with all sorts of dodging tactics- and if, by the way, you find
resentment to the use of nazi, I likewise, would find resentment
with the discriptions "too lazy", "dumb", "stupid", and "moron".
HOWEVER, instead of dropping to the ground and kicking
my feet and clenching my fist and screaming as a child does
when it's bottle is taken away, I am continueing the debate.


... did you read this before you hit "send" - pretty funny!

ROTFLMAO!

He probably thinks it is correct too, Leo Almmost everyone I know finds
"too lazy, Dumb, Stupid, and Moron" to be the moral equivalent of N**I!

Due to the atrocities committed

during WW II, the word "Nazi" has severely negative connotations for a
large percentage of the world's population,

okay, you get the "DUH" award of the day for that one. KEEN grasp
of the obvious.


And, therefore, you KNEW what effect this would have on people, yet
you used it anyway? Oh please....

Of course Clint knows the effects. I see the classic newsgroup "I Wanna
Fight" personality here. Come in, pick a side, then try to rip the other
side a new backside, so to speak. Dehumanize them a little, call them
names, especially the N**I name. Then wait for the outrage and complain
that they are trampling on your free speech. Then try to justify your
calling them N***S by making comparisons like "This guy called someone
stupid, so I can call him a N***, after all, it is the equivalent".

Clint doesn't play well with others, and that is just how he likes it.


reaching beyond the

Hogan's Heroes-esque usage that you recognize and reminding them of
the horrors of that regime, for many in a very personal way.

believe me, I was not reaching for a humorous or laughable reference.
My use of a "will not accept change" analogy was intended at the latter
reality of the regime, not the former comedy that you referred to.


I see....what reality was that, specifically?

however, it was your right to enter the conversation, even if you
had nothing new factual to add, and you may continue doing so.


Thanks! BTW, conversations are carried out in person, discussions
occur on newsgroups. This was the latter.

Care to point out the color of the grass and the sky now?
/reductio ad absurdum


If you mean your point, you have done a better job of reducing it to
the absurd in this reply that anyone else ever could. Thank you!

Is there a point?

- Mike KB3EIA -