On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scott McEachern <sc...@blackstaff.ca> wrote:
> On 10/08/13 17:38, Richard Thornton wrote: >> I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter, >> but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is >> real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. >> >> All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart in the neighborhood, >> buy every pay-as-you-go phone they have, then pass them out to their >> friends in every Mosque. Now you have a new terrorism threat. So, >> welcome to the real world my friend, and wake up. [...] > And for the record, both you and Ze Loff should stick to facts and rational > discussion. Bigots and morons are best defeated with those, and they'll show > their true colours, debasing their own opinions. There's no need for insults > and ad hominem attacks. First of all I owe an apology to the list and, albeit partially, to Richard. I now realise I overreacted a bit. I don't think hate (in the broadest sense of the word) belongs in this list and the comments the kind of which Richard made really get on my nerves. Ironically enough, I ended up spreading the hate myself. Again, my apologies. That being said, Richard, if you still stand behind your comment and your gross generalisation about muslims, I must still call you a bigot. And just for the sake of clarity I have the utmost respect for the victims of 9/11, as I have for those in Boston, Fallujah, Gaza, Auschwitz, Sbrenica, Sudan, Rwanda, Chechnya or in that theatre in Moscow a few years ago. In short for every one who was harmed by some idiot/state who thinks his beliefs (religious or not) is better than the rest of them. The "all muslims are terrorists" generalisation is as dumb and shortsighted as saying all blond girls are stupid, all americans are fat gun fanatics, all germans are nazis, all jews are... I'm sure you get the point. Just to bring this slightly back on-topic, please realise that terrorism (as real as it is) has been used as an pretext. Intercepting communications on the UN has nothing to do with it, nor does planting bugs on the European Parliament, nor does spying on Brasil's President or its state oil company. And Scott, thanks for setting me straight and for the rest of your message. Again sorry for the noise and kudos on the YYCIX, Theo. Zé
