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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: DENNIS WAS RIGHT ABOU 1/2
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 11:38:40 -0700
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                  * Two of my friends argue *

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clara@holsoft.demon.co.uk (Sister Clara)

>henri@netcom.com (henry) wrote:
> [btw, i'll retract all this if you come back, but i'm
> forced to say it, because dammit, i feel betrayed by
> you and i feel that your action in leaving like this
> was utterly despicable.]

Lil' Sister:
>You have NO idea how all this looks to those who have watched this flamewar
>develop, have you, Henry?
>
>Get this into your head, sweety pie. It is possible to support Dennis,
>Arnie, Larry and Bob totally while recognising that the law contains flaws
>which might be exploited when the cases come to court. The problem with the
>law is that it is a continually mutating entity as many areas of it are set
>by precedent and interpretation. If you decide that you want to provide YOUR
>interpretation of the law in public, you must expect other interpretations
>to be perfectly possible. You failed to do this. Rather than debate the
>finer points, you and others chose to launch a vitriolic attack on the
>person who was giving an alternative view. And we all watched it happen.
>
>But I doubt that anything that I say will change your narrow view of this
>episode one jot. Just note this - as has been pointed out many times before,
>the people who actually post to ars represent just a small fraction of those
>who follow the newsgroup. If you now turn your Rottweiler attentions to me,
>just how many people will be watching and making their judgements
>accordingly?
>
>As I said in another post, the OSA must be laughing their heads off at all
>of this. I thought it was only the Co$ who had made a virtue out of shooting
>itself in the foot.
>
>--
>Sister Clara - SP3 - Magpie - LoX
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>*              Little Sisters of the Perpetually Juicy                 *
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    "Party-line", my bl**din' bung-hole.

    This kind of dissent and dialogue is what the founding
    fathers wanted to foster by delineating our rights in the
    Constitution.  No guns.  No blood.  Nobody wounded.  Only
    feelings get hurt.

    You gotta admit, it's a *bit* more civilized way to disagree.

    And disagreement is a Good Thing[tm].  People should be mad 
    as hell about things.  They should use internet to solve the
    problems that bug them the most.

    BTW, I heard that Howard Stern did a Good Thing[tm] and
    forced the state of New York to do roadwork only off of rush
    hour.  
    
    See, even Stern can be one of the Thousand Points of Light. 

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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"