On 10/25/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the outset, I would like to clarify the question of age. When I > said that you were too young to understand, I did not mean to imply > that the older a person gets, the wiser he is.
Thank You. >All I meant is that > the last revolutionary movement in India took place around 1976 when > the emergency was on. I personaly lost many friends and co-workers > and many of us suffered a lot to bring huge amount of freedom for the > next generation. We Indians are an ahistorical race, and even those > who suffered through the emergency appear to have forgotten the > terror that was unleashed on the public. That said, pointwise reply: Kenneth, i did not know this. My condolences and let me say that it has been a priviledge to know you. > precisely which dirty corporations+ powerhungry oppressive > governments are you equating with hitler and stalin? Have you the > faintest clues as to what you are talking about Yes i do. Bush Administration + Halliburton = ??? > so who do you equate the fsf martyrs to - Mangal Pande? Bhagat Singh? > Nelson Mandela? Ho Che Minh? Che Guevara? There no question of comparison. In fact that comparison would be a cardinal sin on our part. > yes, *we* live in a knowledge age. We members of this list, none of > whom earns less than 3 lakhs a year. But 99 crores of people in India > do not live there Agreed. > yes - almost irrelevant. Fighting Monsanto is relevant - thousands of > farmers commit suicide because of Monsanto almost to some but no so to others. Regarding Monsanto i agree. > > i do. But do you consider the those dedicated to the FSF to not be > > revolutionaries? > > no, and if you think so, you have no idea of what revolution is. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/rms-ati-protest.html Moreover lets not try and predict what the future may hold, for it generally surprises everyone. Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
