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Its the ifs and buts

Posted by: Boud Roukema ( France ) on December 18, 1997 at 15:18:12:

In Reply to: Boud, get off the board! posted by james r on December 12, 1997 at 18:22:05:

James seems to want some attention. Hi James!
[Response to several messages by James of Liverpool.]
...
> what I'm getting at.You're government cannot help you,cannot
> combat such evils,so each way,VOTE WITH A BULLET.

...
> Going back to what I said earlier,go away friend,to some hip coffee
> bar,where debate is always theoretical,where you belong.The text book
> attitude is out of place in a movement that demands by it's very nature
> direct action.Don't write back,or if you do,talk like a creature with a
> heart.as well as a brain

Glad you took the indirect action of contributing to the
McSpotlight 80,000 or so pages of indirect action. I'm sure
McSpotlight will be honoured that you consider this a hip debating
spot for philosophising...!

Meanwhile, don't put too much heart into violence, especially if in
self-defence. A big fraction of violence in (at least) many western
countries is due to violence "of the heart" (e.g., husband/wife
beating/murder).

> Open your eyes.This is not a dissertation,this is real life.While the
> likes of Boud(see messages)waffle on about the if and buts of free
> speech,concern themselves with semantics and seek intellectual
> debate,the damage is being done.
> In a way,it's like fiddling while rome burns,totally unhelpful and
> irrelevant.what these people forget is that it's not about
> themselves,likewise this shit isn't about me.We're supposed to be
> here for the victims,not our selfish quest for a philosophy on life.
...

Its the ifs and buts of what Britons think free speech is about
which decide whether or not the Gandalf 3 get out of prison.

Cheers,
Boud.

PS:
> When i allude to action,i mean activism,not anarchy,and this does
> not neccessarily mean violence.Christ...............

Glad you seem to be less enthusiastic about violence now...



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