Yes, it seemed from his immediate and charged response to the initial 
query that Mr. Neylon has a specific axe to grind.

Obviously, he feels that _anything_ that calls the US government into 
question is 'whacko', which of course, is the standard excuse given 
these days from Bush, Rumsfeld, et al. with their rather narrow view of 
the world. It is also clearly the mode of thinking that rationalized 
committing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere.

We are not so far from 1940 as one might think.

-LD


On Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 12:05  AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Sat, 22 May 2004 05:57:11 -0400
> From:    Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: A Voice from the Right
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> Normally, I believe that private correspondence needs to stay private 
> and
> not be shared with a list. In the case of ad hominim attacks, however, 
> I
> believe authors need to have their message be known more widely. The
> following bit was received from Nicholas Neylon, from “Petronet”:” 
> Save the
> "pure motivation" crap for someone else.  We all know that you were 
> subtly
> attempting to spread your whacko "I hate America" bullshit in an
> inappropriate forum.”
>
> I believe the rationality and balance of the argumentation speaks for
> itself.
> Cheers, -Nicholas

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