> ---------- > From: Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > At 11:12 AM -0400 8/10/00, David Honig wrote: > >At 05:58 AM 8/10/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > >> > >>So when I first read it I took 5 kegs to mean 250 or 500 litres of beer > >>(or just maybe 180 gallons). Which, although still an unjustified > >>imposition on liberty is hardly likely to cause a problem to many > >>people - > > > >When they came for the keg partiers, I didn't speak up. > >When they came for the buyers of 1.5 l bottles of wine, I didn't speak > up. > >When they came for my can of american budweiser, there was no one left to > >speak. > > > >Rev. Nevermind > > Clever, but you'd best avoid any form of joke which may be seen as > some as having any "anti-Semitic" overtones, even satirical, even > irony not understood by others. AOL and other ISPs have announced > they will have "zero tolerance." This in the wake of the Lieberman > VP candidacy. > > "AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said the postings were being > investigated, and offenders could have their accounts canceled or > suspended. ``We'll look at it on a case-by-case basis, but we do have > zero tolerance on hate speech,'' he said." (Yahoo news article) > --Tim May > "Zero tolerance" == "We're decided that it's too difficult to behave intelligently". Peter Trei
