Legreatone seems to be CCing replies to a couple of private notes that I have sent him to the list. I didn't want to clutter the list with a great deal of NMC notes but in an effort to bring clarity to the conversation (and just in case anyone else wants to read my ramble), here is the private note I sent to him and to which he replied to publicly.
Just in case folks were somewhat confused... if not simply toss in the bit bucket... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: NMC Several Founders owned slaves Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:55:52 -0400 From: Tony Cooper <[email protected]> To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> I am staying up much too late tonight but this discussion has my interest. Slavery, (or worse) is but a decree away... each day technology increases the chances of slavery or (un)intentional genocide. Consider this open letter written in April 2000, to all members of the US Congress and the US President by Bill Joy, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. It was also published in Wired Magazine in the April, 2000 issue. The first link goes directly to the letter. The second link to a synopsis in Wiki. Both are worth the time to read. The threats to humanity are numerous and constant. Bill's warning is as relevant now as it was when he wrote it 9 years ago. *http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_future_doesn%27t_need_us* Tony [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 9/24/2009 6:19:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I'll bet there's not a person on this list that doesn't have a > slave or 2 in their background. If you're Jewish obviously you > come from a slave background. Read the Bible, slavery is a common > element for people of all color and descent. Go back to your > history books, it's almost in every chapter. Bottom line is > slavery was never considered as evil as we think of it today. > Does that make it right? No, but it explains the mindset and the > fact that it existed. What do we do today that our ancestors will > think of as barbaric? > > Correction - slavery was ALWAYS considered evil by those enslaved. It > was the enslavers who did not think it evil because it gave them an > inexpensive work force (and feed for wild animals). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
