on 7/21/02 20:00, Harry Zink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> deftly typed: >> If someone can get kicked off a list over there simply for mentioning the >> phrase "Nazi occupation of Europe", the Nazis might as well have won, >> because you folks are still living by their rules. I'd have thought a bunch >> of Germans would have figured out the importance of free speech by now. >> >> You sure you're not really living in *East* Germany? > > A) Thomas' comment is to be taken quite tongue-in-cheek. > > B) Thomas is correct, that Europeans, particularly Germans, take 'Nazi' talk > quite seriously, unlike Americans, that love to use the First Amendment to > rationalize such bigots.
Perhaps, but neither Paul nor anyone else was "rationalizing bigots". Again, I repeat the exact quote: > On 2002-07-20 23:57 +0200, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> OK, so where are we? Even if you consider an unexpected reminder or an >> unsolicited event in your calendar to be as serious as the End Of >> Civilization and the equivalent of the Nazi occupation of Europe, you can >> just go TURN IT OFF so you never see one again. In future releases, you will >> be alerted so that this can NEVER happen surreptitiously and you can turn it >> off the first time you get sent an invitation, or else leave the alert on >> instead. What more do you want? To which Thomas replied: > Paul, lost you mind??? > Well, from personal experience, I understand Aussies aren't anywhere > sensible to that Nazi stuff for whatever reason, *but*, your above > statement would trigger an immediate kickoff at most European hosted lists. > And, there is a sporadic problem with your caps-lock as well. Just because Europeans act this way doesn't make it right. Should Paul also be kicked off Euro lists for mentioning the term "End of Civilization"? Who gets to make these rules, I wonder? I certainly remember who was making these exact same rules fifty years ago. Rod D. Martin http://www.theVanguard.org ________ We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. -- Eric Hoffer, "Reflections on the Human Condition" -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
