Ursula, I've been changing over to Vista and working with a sick laptop so I seem to have deleted the applicable messages. Also, I seem to have deleted my bookmarks and don't recall how to get onto the web site to check. Sorry, Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ursula Stange Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:42 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat Lawrence has no answer? Ursula Stange wrote: > Lawrence, you're seeing things that aren't there. What in Mike's note > (below) prompted this response? You accuse us of knee-jerk reactions, > but who's really jerking here? > US > > Lawrence Helm wrote in response to Mike G.: > >> Now you guys who don't like or defend Saddam Hussein are back to >> defending him. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Geary >> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:26 PM >> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat >> >> >> I agree with you, Lawrence. Copy that sentence and frame it! And, of >> course, you recognize that people have the same right to believe in >> Islamism >> as in Christian Evangelism and in Islamic Fudamentalism as in Christian >> Fundamentalism. Belief is no crime. Only acts are crimes. Only those who >> commit crimes are our enemy, not those who cheer on the criminals (I >> cheer >> on bank robbers), or wish they were themselves criminals, only the >> people >> who commit crimes are criminals. It makes the world more complicated, I >> agree. But it separates us from the barbarism of people like Saddam >> Hussein >> who would kill not just those who tried to assassinate him, but all his >> family as well. >> Mike Geary >> >> Memphi > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html