Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:30:10 +0530
From: " Frederick [FN] Noronha * ???????? ???????? "
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I'm willing to bet (a rupee) that Mario will be able to bait Mervyn
back into "debate" (or whatever you call it) despite the latter's very
public pledge. Any gamblers willing to rate the chances? FN
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Mario responds:
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Fred,
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It seems you remember such threats that have been made numerous times by these
"brothers-in-arms" as one of them once called themselves. Unfortunately for
the forum, these only last a couple of hours, so you actually should have bet a
lot more:-))
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Secondly, I need to correct you about a misconception you, too, seem to be
laboring under. That I "bait" Mervyn. The fact is I would like to have as
little to do with these guys in any shape or form, and restrict myself to
correcting their often deliberately misconstrued and mis-stated facts, or
putting some context and perspective on some of their opinions that may be
based on such misconstrued and mis-stated facts, which cannot be allowed to
stand without rebuttal in a public forum.
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If there is any "bait" wouldn't that be a deliberate distortion of a fact,
sometimes repeated over and over again, rather than my correction of such a
fact? On matters of opinion that are based on recognizeable facts, I have
always been willing to agree to disagree.
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As I anticipated, some of the usual suspects who support a restriction on free
speech were the first to show their true colors in this thread, while the
alleged defenders of free speech and robust debate are yet to be heard from.
Since many of them disagree with me on political issues, I wonder if they have
the guts to speak out against one of their own friends.
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This is another excellent example where people show their true colors without
doing anything, by not doing anything.
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>From your comments I have no idea where you stand on the free speech issue of
>trying to ostracize a member of Goanet, of which you are apparently an
>adminstrator. Pretty amazing.
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