Note to all. the following e-mail contains profanity, it seems sopme people do not know how to behave in an adult manner. 1) Had you stated you OPINION as a Thesis, you would have failed. 2) Psycological terrorism is still terrorism, but it is usually not Violent 3) Only the small minded resort to profanity to make a point. 4) Natural gas To: el2iot2@mail.com Subject: Re: Ant: [HNW] Everyone in London okay? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:27:34 -0600 > > FACT: There were 4 explosions, 3 almost simultaneous, in London this week. > FACT: A website tentatively linked to an Al-Quaida group was claiming > responsibility for said explosions. > FACT: Many people died or were seriously injured. > PREMISE: Explosions deliberately set to injure, harm, or frighten > people are an act of violence. > FACT: Acts of terrorism, throughout history, have been violent. (This > is not a rumor, or gossip, or paranoia. I studied it. I even graduated > from a respectable college with a degree in history.) While not all > violence is terrorism, I defy you to find a *single* example of > terrorism that isn't violent. > FACT: You seem to be making enormous assumptions about my politics > and my reasons for referring to the London bombings as terrorism. > You are > almost certainly in error. An act of terrorism is an act of > terrorism, regardless of the color of the skin of perpetrators or > victims, or their gender, or their ethnicity, or their religion, or > their sexual orientation. Or their national identity. Individuals > can be terrorists, groups can be terrorists, hell, even governments > can (and do) perpetrate acts of terrorism. And they do it for all > kinds of different reasons, some of which I can understand, some > not, but none of which can I condone. > FACT: My referring to the London bombings was not a "random > guess." I was not repeating gossip. I was commenting on > information I'd received from a variety of noteworthy, responsible > and reliable sources. I didn't have to be standing in the subway > entrance, or next to the shattered double-decker bus, to have *some > clue* that something violent had occured, and that it could NOT be > accidental. > FACT: I'm actually more than 2000 miles from London. What's your > point? How far away were you? The moon? > QUESTION: Just who the fuck do you think you are? Why are you > coming off as so desperate to make some stupid point about the > definition of a word when people died, for crying out loud? Why are > you continuing to attack a complete stranger over a word? > SUGGESTION: Get a life. I know I have one (that's a FACT not a > RUMOR), and I have better things to do than argue with some > internet troll. > --sue > > el2iot2@mail.com wrote: > > > Logic is based on FACT not on a random guess. You are spreading > > gossip and paranoia, NOT FACT. The Truth is Wisdom, a guess is Not > > Logic, nor is it news. Get the Facts, then state you opinon. not > > state your opinion and then get the facts > the former>. 2000 miles from the source, and befor the investigation, > > you do not have FACTS. > > > > If you are offended by someone challangeing your OPINION when you do > > not have the FACTS, then the problem is your delivery. The FACTS may > > prove YOU to be correct, but LOGICAL NO you are not. > > > > joy radei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Clemenger" > > To: el2iot2@mail.com Subject: Re: Ant: [HNW] > > Everyone in London okay? Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:30:59 -0600 > > > > > >> I'm not paranoid, I'm logical. If I were paranoid, I'd be assuming > >> that you were being deliberately rude to me with the "AssUMe" > >> tidbit. (yeah, I get it. har-de-har-har.) But being logical, I'm > >> going to go with the idea that you're just trying to be cute (or > >> something). So 'scuze the hell out of me, but saying (or > >> intimating) that bombings like those could be anything but acts of > >> war or terrorism goes far beyond naive. --sue > >> > >> el2iot2@mail.com wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Informed or otherwise, you know what they say about when you > >>> AssUMe..... > >>> > >>> but to wait for the facts. guesses just make for paranoia... > >>> > >>> joy radei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Clemenger" > >>> To: "Historic Needlework" > >>> Subject: Re: Ant: [HNW] Everyone in > >>> London okay? Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:33:25 -0600 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Well, actually, I didn't specify a group or groups. I simply > >>>> made the informed assumption that coordinated explosions of > >>>> this nature could hardly be accidental, so they must have been > >>>> purposeful, and I can't think of any anonymous violence of > >>>> that scale and level of coordination that hasn't proven (either > >>>> historically or more recently) to be of some sort of political > >>>> or religious nature, done with the intent to disrupt and cause > >>>> fear, which is a pretty good off-the-cuff definition of > >>>> terrorism, in my book. --sue > >>>> > >>>> Anna von Silvenhain wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> not wanting to be political, but at the moment it is not > >>>>> certain, _who_ did it and why it did happen. You can only > >>>>> guess. > >>>>> > >>>>> untill now all of our members in London are fine, I'll tell, > >>>>> If I know more. > >>>>> > >>>>> greetings from Germany, Anna > >>>>> > >>>>> --- Sue Clemenger schrieb: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> I was horrified to read in the news this morning that some > >>>>>> damned terrorist group was setting off bombs in London today, > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ H-needlework > >>>> mailing list H-needlework@ansteorra.org > >>>> http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/h-needlework > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> joy > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > joy > > > > joy -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm