Hi
could someone please inform the newbies like me a bit more detailed about the political mishap at Dave C.'s site. I was always wondering a bit about his comments in the code but wrote it off as jokes of someone in night mode.
Boy, this is a day I hate to be reliving the memory of, for any number of reasons. But since you ask ... I think it was Mike's intention to address this indirectly, by pointing to an archive of the LRP mailing list from the time when the exodus happened, since there was a lot of discission of the events of the time there on the list. Unfortunately, when I looked at that archive, I found it oddly incomplete for the days (June 11 and 12) in question.
My own departure message from the LRP list, for example, is missing from the archive. I don't know why. While I cannot be sure how much more of that period's traffic is missing from the archive, my memory of those days makes me think that all messages that discussed what Dave actually said on the Web site seem to have been lost somehow.
Of the missing material, the only thing I have is my copy of my own departure message, sent on June 12. Rather than try to reconstruct the details from memory, I'll just quote what I said at the time, since that should clarify at least my motive. I will say that at least for me, the issue went beyond using a technical site for a political purpose.
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I too will be leaving this list shortly. For what it's worth, I will be reachable via the various LEAF lists.
While I don't want to get into an extended debate about my motives, I do want to take a moment to clear up one (probable) misunderstanding.
At 11:34 PM 6/12/01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Why do you all want such a man dead? Don't you think death is the >'easy way out'? ...
My concern about Dave's presentation doesn't come from a position on the death penalty. It comes from his having posted an encomium for Mr. MacVeigh that ends with this sentence: "May his effort not go unfinished." No thank you.
My best wishes and warmest regards to you all. Good bye.
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For those who do not remember the name (especially folks from outside the USA), Timothy McVeigh (this is the correct spelling) was convicted of the bombing of a govenment office building in Oklahoma City, a bombing that killed about 150 people. He was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.
I used to have a complete copy of the "memorial" Dave posted to Mr McVeigh on the LRP site that night, but I no longer know where to find it.
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