[pure-silver] Re: [pure-silver]: Democracy in Peril

  • From: Ron Schwarz <rs@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:18:54 -0400

03:02 PM 9/14/2004 -0600, Leigh Solland wrote:
 
>Ron Schwarz wrote:
>
>> 09:59 AM 9/14/2004 -0700, joe suburbs wrote:
>>
>> >That people followed a path of least resistance in this case does not
>> signify any trends because you cannot extrapolate trends from one data
>> point. I suspect many people signed up for the freelist list that Brick
>> originated because it provided an acceptable solution to them.
>> >
>> >Key word being acceptable. Not good, better, best or even fair, right,
>> moral or just. Not even final. But acceptable.
>> >
>> >Consensus takes many forms, the process isn't always going to follow
>> Robert's Rules of Order or any order whatsoever.
>>
>> He's just upset that his little coup failed, that's all.
>>
>> Beware the "liberator" who demeans, belittles, accuses, and otherwise
>> attacks those he claims to wish to "save".
>>
>> Beware the "shepherd" who *drives* his flock with a spear, a bark, a growl,
>> and a threat.
>>
>> Real shepherds *lead*.  Wolves are the ones that *drive* their quarry.
>>
>> The Angry Handful is pissed off that they weren't able to pull off their
>> tinhat "revolution".
>>
>> It's kinda sad in a way to see someone (or two or three ;) *so* wrapped up
>> in things that they're consumed with the need to control the lives of
>> others to such an extent that they try to turn a simple mailing list
>> migration into a People's Revolutionary Crusade.
>>
>> Kinda disgusting, too.
>>
>> I notice Comrade Zimbabweman did not manage to answer my question as to why
>> he didn't call for these People's Revolutionary Reforms BEFORE the
>> migration.  If things are as Truly F'd Up as he (and his Silly Crew) insist
>> they are, then *surly* the Rule of King Tim should have been challenged
>> from the start.
>>
>> Or could it possibly be that, like all predatory scavengers, the stood
>> wait, biding their time, knowing that it would be utter folly to strike
>> until a moment of transition, when there'd be an opportunity to cash in on
>> the temporary disarray?
>>
>
>Ron, I have been mightily entertained by the flame war on the old list,
but I don't think I want to read it on this one.  Please?

No problemo.

Jim, please unsubscribe me, thanks.

I've had my fill from all directions.

Best wishes, etc.


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