I just did silly. Andreas attacked both Eric and I for wanting to oppose Militant Islamists. Andreas ends his note with an attack against Eric, me and America. This has happened over and over but I'm not going to waste my time on one of your silly goose chases in which you get me to go off on a tangent and leave my main argument behind. I said if the stakes were large enough I'd go back in the archives but you couldn't afford it. If you are really being straight in this then maybe you don't see what Andreas did as an attack. Sure he criticized Eric America and I but only because we deserved it; which means it isn't a real attack. Well it is an attack, Judy. We began talking about Terrorists and Andreas ends up talking about how rotten, Eric, most of America and I are. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Evans Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:49 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot What began as criticism of > Militant Islam ends up a criticism of Lawrence, Eric, and the USA. This > stands as but one example of what Judy says doesn't exist. I'll say it one more time. You said that when a list member criticised terrorism/terrorists, they were attacked. That is not true. I'll make your task easier. Produce just one example of a list member being attacked for opposing or criticising terrorism. Just one. That is what I said didn't exist. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:43 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot > Baloney, Andreas, but better written than most of your Baloney so a relative > pleasure to read. You begin with the assumption that what Joerg says is > true. Of course it isn't true. We don't have large scale atrocities > committed in our name. If there are atrocities of any size whatsover then > someone is brought to justice. Our enemy on the other hand commits large > scale atrocities and claims religious authority for them and receives > applause from the rest of Militant Islam. > > > > Assuming this false statement to be true you speak of the love Eric and I > have for massive murder. Which is another falsehood. It has a nice > literary ring to it, but it is nevertheless false. We have no such love. > Our interest is in defeating our enemy and defending our country. Eric is > angry and speaking "over-the-top" in his anger; but so what. After our > enemy is defeated we shall be perfectly happy to let him live in peace. All > he needs to do is let us live in peace. Of course there is that other > language problem, the one the enemy has when he says that he won't stop > until we are all dead. Eric, living near the Twin Towers ought to be given > a little slack for being unhappy with the Terrorists, but I'm not willing to > give our enemy any slack when he promises to destroy us because there are > elements representing his Militant Islamic point of view who are striving to > do just that. Only our resistance, including military resistance, is > preventing that from happening. So those interested in defense of one's > nation are castigated for it by those who don't want their little cocoons of > security disturbed by things like spiders, rats, Terrorists and their > exterminators. > > > > You say that Eric and I if we lived in Europe would feel societal pressure > to behave in a civilized manner for wanting to force the Militant Islamics > bent upon killing us to behave in a civilized manner. Who is the more > civilized, those who want to resist a group bent upon the destruction of > civilization or those resisting that destruction? Are the Terrorists and > their supporters more civilized, or are Eric and I for wanting to resist > their destructive behavior? > > > > And I note that you have ended up attacking America one more time. Note, > you hypothetically new members, what Andreas concludes with: "Lawrence and > Eric actually do represent the USA, both in foreign and domestic matters. > Everyone outside the USA can see how the Bush White House dealt with the > Arabs in Iraq and the Blacks in New Orleans." What began as criticism of > Militant Islam ends up a criticism of Lawrence, Eric, and the USA. This > stands as but one example of what Judy says doesn't exist. > > > > Lawrence > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html