Subject: Re: NetAction Notes No. 40
Mark J. Huisman (cinemark@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:14:14 -0400
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980826201414.006dceec@pop.mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:14:14 -0400 To: roundtable@cni.org From: "Mark J. Huisman" <cinemark@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: NetAction Notes No. 40
On 8/25/98, Vigdor Schreibman <fins98@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> Ted (the Unabomber) Kaczynski is a mad man who did not know how
> to take the peaceful route to transformation, though his assessment
> of the dangerous situation was quite accurate. Indeed, that
> assessment was even agreed to by Yale professor of computer science,
> David Gelernter, who the Unabomber tried to assassinate, as I have
> previously reported.
>
> The relevance of the Unabomber to this discussion is not any
> sympathy that I have for his mad conduct but to underscore the
> nature of the conflict and its appalling unintended consequences.
> We must use our intelligence and responsibility as citizens of
> democracy to peacefully resist such an outcome, grown to much
> larger scale and scope.
Give me a break! David Gelertner didn't share the Unabomber's views.
He merely stated on more than one ocassion that he understood how
someone could feel that way. This is a disgusting interpretation, a
re-interpretation, of his remarks. And you didn't "report" it, you
"opined" it. It was reported widely elsewhere first (accurately, in
fact) including the AP and The New York Times. It's fine to remind us
of a previous posting about your opinion, but to suggest it's journalism
is simply untrue.
As to the implication in your posting that had the nation chose "true
democracy" over capitalism people like the Unabomber wouldn't go off
the deep end, I don't know where to start. This entire discussion has
simply become too surreal to merit further attention. It's parallels
like these that alienate people to ideas that may have even a scrap of
merit.
Mark J. Huisman
The Independent
<cinemark@mindspring.com>
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