Re: [ga] Older Registrations

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:34 AM 4/4/00 +0200, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>Craig is providing in his analysis below the best explanation on why
>this debate will be endless, i.e. because there is some truth and some
>inexactitude in both statements made so far.

that sort of assessment is often true.

unfortunately, people inclined to make unreasonable claims know that 
reasonable people will take this "truth is somewhere in the middle" 
approach, even when the approach does not work.

That is, they rely on their unreasonable statements being assumed to have 
some reasonableness to them.


>IMHO, USG participated initially in the IAHC with the intention of
>providing USG POV in the matter (and therefore with somebody in an

While it would be understandable and reasonable for the government to 
participate on such terms, what evidence do you have that that was their 
intent?

Over roughly the nine months of IAHC work, before Magaziner shot us down, I 
heard no such cautionary or arms-length statements from the 
government.  Yes, I did note that the public statements from them were 
wonderfully neutral and very much was concerned that they would pull the 
rug out from under us if they deemed it convenient.  However others who I 
thought far more politically experienced than I kept assuring us that we 
were getting their support.


>"official" capacity - what's the point otherwise in having somebody at
>that high level instead of an obscure clerk?), but as always happens in

The other reason is to add that much more credibility to the process.

In other words, far less than "listening" and "commenting, as you suggest, 
is the role of supporting.  (In addition to listening and commenting, of 
course.)  That was certainly the basis of Strawn's presence that I understood.


>But feel free to insist to mutually ask for proofs, just be aware that
>few people are still listening.


Indeed, I again let one of these threads become protracted in order to see 
whether a bald statement of fact that I knew to be untrue would produce any 
substance to support it.  Since none has been forthcoming, I will add 
yet-another filter to my email.

Missing the postings of such erroneous claims makes it less likely that 
they will succeed in causing further distractions.

d/

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