[ga] Re: ... vandalism an honorable activity? NOT!

[Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>]

It's a simple proceedure - when freedoms are in jeopardy - anything goes.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

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> > From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Joe
> > Baptista
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 3:53 AM
> > 
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > 
> > > > >that the GA has suffered. The old saw about not fixing what  
> > > > isn't broken,
> > > > 
> > > > I can change that.
> > > 
> > > Why? Just to instantiate a maturity level? Do you commonly go
> > > around breaking things just because you can?
> > 
> > If I can break it, it needs to be fixed or replaced.  But 
> > don't worry, I'm not on the war path right now.
> 
> I'd feel better if I didn't have to worry. In your neighborhood, one
> can not have windows because you feel that you have the right to
> break breakable things. I strongly object to that. In meat-space,
> such behaviour will land you in jail. This makes you nothing more
> than a common vandal, a Cracker.
> 
> > Freedom costs my friend, some of us have the courage for it 
> > and most of us don't.
> 
> Please, let's not confuse the lofty ideals of freedom with the common
> dirt of simple vandalism. Our ancestors decided that this was wrong,
> over a thousand years ago, when the Vandals were routed the first
> time. I am also starting to get a pretty good idea of whom mwsh'd two
> of my name-servers, in Fall98 (A person I'd love to meet ... up close
> and personal [I didn't need to add 12 hours to an 18x7 schedule]).
> Because, what you have just alluded to was a Cracker ethic and a
> common rationalization, that crackers use, for their activities.
> 
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