On 2006-04-06 16:31:00, Nomad wrote:
I'll not defend myself to you now, nor will I ever - I have no reason to. And, I'll not easily forget that you and Ginger would call me a Nazi. I don't care what context you used *particularly* since you stated, clearly, that you know I'm Jewish. There is no greater attack on one's character than that.
It's the doing of it that's reprehensible, not the speaking of it. FWIW, I was a Nazi too. Not so much an enthusiastic believer as I was a denier; far too timid and self concerned to even comprehend what I was seeing and my part in it. I know how that works. Nobody sets out to be a monster; it just sort of creeps up on you. But just a little understanding and remorse goes a long, long way toward making sure that it happens
never again! The surest way to bring it all about as quickly as possible is to... well, take a page from the Nazis; make the topic verbotten to speak of so that no one will understand it and we all will be easy marks for the same scam once again.
But how `bout we try and meet halfway. If I'm not allowed to say it cause I'm probably not Jewish (don't know that much about my family history) and Hip can't say it because he's of merely Semitic Christian herriatage, is it alright for Arnold Trebach to quote a Dutch drug Czar who states it outright and a Christian minister who alludes to it?
"Addicts are the scapegoat of our age."
--Reverend Terence E. Tanner, London, 1979
Last fall, I published an article on my web page titled MORAL INTEGRITY AND PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES: The Straight Skinny in which I mention a chance encounter I had years ago in Australia with our then Ambassador to Australia, Melvin Sembler, and his wife, Betty. This occurred at a major international drug conference, attended by leading experts from around the world. Ambassador Sembler was the key speaker at a huge banquet. During the course of his talk, he modestly mentioned that he had a little knowledge about the drug field, having founded a novel juvenile drug rehabilitation in America called Straight, Inc.
Actually I was quite familiar with Straight having investigated it extensivley and having devoted an entire chapter of one of my books to the abuses of Straight. In my view -- and that of many other experts -- Straight was a symbol of the destructive ignorance that lay at the heart of our entire approach to drug treatment and control. My wife, Marj, and I were stunned, shocked beyond belief to hear our esteemed ambassador mislead the international audience into believing that one of the horrors of the American drug war was a humane model for the world. We whispered to each other in disbelieving tones which drew puzzled, quiet questions from our distinguished table mates -- what are you so upset about, etc? We quietly responded and then the Dutch drug czar whispered that, oh yes, he knew about it -- "Hitler jugend!"
http://www.trebach.org/articles/Conference1.htmlGiven the choice between dancing pigs and security, people will choose dancing pigs every time.
-- Ed Felton (quoted in www-security about Active-X)