Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:51:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>, Help Victims <fight_terrorism@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> In-Reply-To: <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org>
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This is not appropriate for -questions, so I've moved it to -chat Basically, I'm confused as to what your point is? Are you pointing out that all people are imperfect? Are you reiterating the fact that racism is rampant across the world? Are you suggesting that the world is full of insane people? Basically, I see it this way. Violence is a sign of immaturity. There are a LOT of immature people in this world. President Bush appears to be intent on proving to the world just how immature the United States is by rewarding violence with more violence. I hope the world grows up before it destroys itself. Read your history, WW I took far less violence than this to start. We're travelling down a familiar road right now, and the street signs say WW III. On a more FreeBSD related note, do you think this will provoke the US government to create restrictions hurtful to the free software community? Such as crypto restrictions, or new laws allowing the government to invade our privacy as we use the internet? All in the name of "protecting the country from possible terrorist threats?" Could pgp be outlawed? -Bill On Wednesday 12 September 2001 18:51, Milo Hyson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 September 2001 02:55 pm, Help Victims wrote: > > Hi everyone. As many of you are aware, people in Egypt and > > other countries celebrated the attacks on New York and > > Washington. > > I know some of my following statements are going to be very unpopular with > my fellow Americans (and this whole thread is quite off-topic from the > charter of this mailing list) but here it goes anyway. > > I agree that the celebration of death, destruction and the victories of war > is a horrendous concept. I agree that it shouldn't happen. But it does ... > and we do it too. > > Over two hundred years ago, after fighting for our independence from > Britain, we celebrated our victory, ignoring all of the people that were > killed, mamed and permenantly disfigured. Grown men lying on ground in > agony, crying out for their mothers like they were two years old. The fact > that most of them were soldiers (or so we're told) is irrelevant. They were > still human beings with thoughts, feelings and dreams. We continue to > celebrate this every 4th of July. > > In the Gulf War, we bombed the shit out of Bahgdad killing many innocent > people in the process. We celebrated our victory there too. > > Yesterday while watching news coverage of the attacks, I overheard someone > say repeatedly that we should nuke every foreign country to "get rid of > them all." He used the term "dune coon" many times, referring to people of > Arab ethnicity. > > Please understand that I'm in no way condoning what happened yesterday > morning. Like many people, I wish there were a way to turn back time and > prevent it. One of my clients lost employees in the attack, people that I > knew and had met with many times in the course of business. People that I > will never meet again. > > Just realize that when it comes to war, Americans can be just as cold and > heartless as the ones who carried out this attack. In the end, it doesn't > matter what country you're from, what color your skin is, what language you > speak or what god you pray to (if any). We're all human, with the same goal > ..... life. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services (412) 793-4257 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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