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Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism
From: <chris () loftyperch com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:33:36 -0800 (PST)
--- SDALAN04 () smumn edu wrote:
Chris:
Hey Sdalan,
Just because people/humans are able to debate in a polite and educated manner doesn't mean that by any means are well rounded people or portray the minimum idea of world reality. I am of European decent but definitely not by any means in the structured latter of the majority. Bigotry like that of the government and people who feel that living under world domination ("the price for being American,"we have nothing to hide") including racial profile will help to live better and safer is a FUCKING IDIOT.
I sympathize with your position, I held it once. Since then I have seen an awful lot of things and gotten to know an awful lot of people, and found that the position you are taking is itself a form of bigotry. Assuming that those who hold a view that is different from yours are somehow lesser intellectually, ethically or emotionally is a dead-end. In my early twenties I moved to South Carolina all full of righteous expectations of meeting white rednecks who hate black people - instead I mostly met white redneck people who were the salt of the earth and held no animosity towards anyone. I even found out that a really nice guy at work was a Klansman and had a long talk with him about it, and to my disappointment he failed to sprout horns and while I did not find myself agreeing with his rationale, neither did I find him to be unusually stupid or hateful - just wrong.
Am on this mailing list to learn from others and every now and then mirror the lack of common-sense (for the lack of term) of others. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and attempt:::? Yeah, the encouragement of racial, religion, nationality profiling is just ever increasing more avenues to shit.
Perhaps, and I hope so. However, distateful and wrong are not necessarily synonymous in all case. Only rational contemplation and debate can approach an honest truth.
Don't mean to offend anyone,
I know, you're just full of righteous indignation. I wish you luck in working through that.
Last reply, Have a good weekend!
You too.
"Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" - Einstein
True, but sometimes violent opposition results from just being incorrect. -chris Chris Blask Founder and CEO Lofty Perch Inc A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things. - Admiral Grace Hopper, Computer Pioneer 1231 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 1G6 +1 416 358 9885 chris () loftyperch com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
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- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism SDALAN04 (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism SDALAN04 (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism SDALAN04 (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism chris (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism SDALAN04 (Dec 02)