On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Scott C. Best wrote:
>
> I just wanted to split a quick hair. No affront to
> Pi, I just needed a handy quote to speak from:
>
> > My point: This is an LRP issue. Deal with it in LRP and try not to
> > generalize it into something larger. Abstaining from politics is politics
> > as well.
>
> To be sure, McVeigh is not a "political" issue. It is
> an *ideological* issue. Dave-C's advocation of terrorism and
> violent extremism does not merit a comparison to even the most
> libertarian political agenda. It is not "politically correct"
> to condemn the actions of McVeigh, or the actions of the bombers
> in Lebanon, Jerusalem, Kenya, Tanzania, etc. Condemnation of
> terrorism is the flip-side of a near-universal love of life
> and respect for it. In the religion of my family, this mindset
> was known as simply "ethical". Which, as has been pointed out,
> has nothing to do with an operating system.
You didn't have to convince me of that, for sure. There is no issue of
silently agreeing with what was stated, just that I feel no need to get on
the publicity bandwagon about what is on a site I am only faintly
affiliated with. The more noise people make of it, the more publicity
there will be to surround it. Serves no real purpose, political,
ideological or other. I don't feel like mixing things up in some ZDNet
fanatic reporting that Open Source is now equal to terrorism and lord
knows what. Let's keep our distance from linuxrouter, for sure, but let's
not call for a press conference.
Pi
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