On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Dan Minette wrote: > > Reductio ad absurdum. Nobody is claiming that here. > > The reference to brownshirt alludes to that, I think.
"Self-appointed brownshirt" - please get the whole quote. Which precludes an accusation of government wrongdoing, but which, yes, certainly alludes to the willingness of some ordinary people to behave like fascist gits under certain circumstances and when given a convenient excuse. If private property makes it legal for them to do so, it doesn't make the mall cops - or perhaps I should say mall management, or the Macy's clerk, or whoever it was that couldn't tolerate the sight of dissenting speech - nongits. Depending on the facts of the case, of course.... But so far as I can tell, the offenders did nothing but wear t-shirts and be seen on a solitary occasion. > I also agree that we need to work on having more civil disagreements. I > think there was no comment on Gautam's examples because there was no one > who was interested in defending the behavior of the folks Gautam had issue > with. It was wrong to do that, pure and simple. That is another example > of people not being willing to put the effort into civility. ...? I must have missed this. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) http://www.breakyourchains.org/john_poindexter.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
