IP: two on The Battle of Seattle

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

[Two reactions to the note. These are rational reactions -- well semi at 
least. Some reactions I got were more noisy and in a way definitely anti 
american - at least if you believe in the first amendment as being critical 
to what is the USA (and I do) . Anyway I do try to reflect the multiple 
sides of issues and will continue to send out things that I think will make 
people THINK. djf]


> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:46:14 -0500
> From: Bob Metcalfe <Metcalfe () idg net>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> Dear Dave,
>
> You say you are not responsible for the opinions you choose to
> redistribute.  Shsh.
>
> This below man is a pool of Marxist mob propaganda.  He will lead the
> charge in regulating your beloved Internet.  Seattle was about FREE
> trade.  The mob that showed up is the mob you should fear.  Anybody who
> thinks Jimmy Hoffa and his Teamster gangs give a rat's ass about the
> environment, workers, and human rights is seriously duped.
>
> You really should be more selective.  Please take the rubbish out, don't
> pass it along.
>
> /Bob Metcalfe

and

From: "Warren Amole" <warrenamole () home com>
To: <farber () cis upenn edu>


It's certainly amazing to me how an organization that spends 95% of it's
time trying to figure out what it's agenda should be (and usually doesn't)
has landed on the list with black helicopters and secret societies.  Seattle
is still a small town in many respects, primarily in it's attitudes and
provincialism.  It wasn't prepared for an event like this and the city
government was naïve in thinking that everyone would behave.  And a couple
of hundred rabble rousers turned the whole thing south and the cops,
undermanned and undertrained, over-reacted in some cases.  This was no
battle between good and evil - just a mess.  And Michael Moore's spin on it
is as ridiculous as the mayor's, "We need to start talking in terms of
peace," Schell said. "There is not a `Battle of Seattle.' What there is is a
wonderful expression of free speech."


Nobody won, everybody lost, and nothing was