RE: virus: Perception is everything.

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 17:10:15 MDT


On 6 Sep 2002 at 10:43, Blunderov wrote:

> joedees@bellsouth.net Fri 2002/09/06 08:30 AM wrote:
> <snip>
> Either Cybermind finds you as bizarre and distasteful as we do, or
> none of us would desire to subscribe to it. <snap>
>
> [Blunderov]
> I must assume that the "we" above is of the editorial variety.
> Speaking for myself. I certainly do not find Scatflinger distasteful
> and as for "bizarre"; I much prefer it to "mediocre" or "boring".
>
> Perhaps this is a good time to observe that there have been some very
> remarkable conspiracies in America's recent history, the Kennedy
> assassination and the Watergate Scandal to name but two. It is by no
> means unreasonable to suspect that there exists in American political
> culture a definite penchant for such covert machinations.
>
> If one considers these facts and also takes into account the fact that
> citizens of democracies are well known to be reluctant to go to war,
> then it is reasonable for such citizens to be extremely skeptical of
> everything their leaders say about war.
>
> This skepticism does sometimes, even frequently, get completely
> carried away it is true. The way to deal with this is not by
> dismissing all such claims out of hand on the specious basis that they
> are "conspiracy theories", but by applying and disseminating the
> rational tools with which the wheat may be separated from the chaff.
>
>
> Go Scatflinger! I'll have my quotes medium-rare.
>
> Warm regards
>
I find it* highly* distasteful for Scat to smirkingly imply that the Bush
administration either engineered the 9/11 atrocities or willfully allowed
them to happen. We have a videotape of Bin Laden whooping it up
with joy that his attack was so successful and that so many died in the
Twin Towers that day; I suppose he thinks that the tape was fabricated
by the CIA or the Bavarian Illuminati. Such crepuscular crap has been
compost-level chaff from the get-go for anyone with half a cerebral
cortex.



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