It should be obvious when someone gets off-topic & disruptive. As soon as this is recognized, the key is not to exacerbate the clutter adding more retorts!
Bill wrote: "the linching [flaming] party was gathering," meaning that an adverse consensus was building. Such a consensus could immediately kill disruptive threads, not by playing 'Arabs & Israelis' and *flaming* them, but by simply IGNORING them! [email protected]'s problem was straying from discussing CS. We can solve the problem, and avoid becoming part of it, by simply sticking to discussing CS! Hollering for "MIKE!" invokes the coercive/technological alternative. The societal analogue is to call in the gov't to deploy batons, bullets & iron bars! Remember Kissinger's quote before the Bildebergers: 'Given the right emergency, people will BEG for UN troops on the streets.' As a People, we had better learn to self-govern, to build consensus and handle situations communicatively, and FAST, because we're rapidly becoming out-gunned by eager, militarized SWAT teams... --Russ http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=17241&group=webcast Peaceful Bush protest FIRED UPON with tear gas, rubber bullets, batons...snipers on the roofs... "I was between 5th and 6th on the sidewalk. Maybe the ones in front were warned to move, but I didn't hear any warning. It had been a peaceful protest. Suddenly the police came forward spraying pepper spray. A man nearby with an infant in a backpack got hit real good. The baby's face was so red I thought it had quit breathing. We pounded on the door at Carl's Jr. asking for water, but they had locked up. From the other direction came cop cars through the crowd and rubber bullets were fired at those closest to the cars. I kept retreating but the cops kept spraying. Lots of people were sprayed including the camera man from Channel 2 KATU. Some of us ended up across the street at Standard Insurance and used the fountain and pool." -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
