Gentlemen, behave.....
From: Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24-05-2004 08:09 AST To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: Goodbye Tom, you are giving him too much credit: he simply got plastered AGAIN. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > Arto, > Your reasons for leaving this community are as thoroughly immoral as those > you claim are driving you away. One assumes that the treatment of the Iraqi > prisoners to which you object results from them simply being Iraqis, guilt by > association. You are seriously telling us that you no longer wish to be part > of > our lute community simply because many of us are American and British, > likewise > guilt by association. This is a typical example of stereotyping, as carried > out by the Nazis, Communists, and indeed the fanatics who were responsible > for > the WTC attack and many other acts of barbarity. > > By assuming that you know how we feel about the goings-on in Iraq you pretend > to a knowledge you do not have. And even worse, you either infer that we all > agree with such things, or simply find that being in the company of Americans > and British people is beneath the dignity of a man from a continent which > produced Auschwitz, the Gulags, the Inquisition, and countless other horrors > in > its history. > > Your 'protest' is not only meaningless, but the act of a person in some ways > even worse than those soldiers you disapprove of. If education, music, the > arts and sciences have any value over and above themselves, then it surely > ought > to include the ability to think clearly and refrain from primitive and > insulting insinuations, let alone condemning two entire nations for the deeds > of a > few of their citizens. What you have done with your empty gesture is thus the > ultimate betrayal, the first in a series of steps that led to Auschwitz and > the > denial of humanity for the sake of arcane and misconceived beliefs. > > TB --
