black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) (08/14/85)
I found a good one in net.humor the other day. It makes interesting
reading. Rather than reproduce it, and waste a couple of hundred blocks of
disk space, I'll just give you the header and you can look it up:
Newsgroups: net.politics
Path: decwrl!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!oaf
Subject: One Oaf's Opinion [type 'n' now, y'all]
Posted: Sat Aug 10 12:41:11 1985
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Keywords: Don Black, a surprising fellow, gone slightly awry...
Summary: Ad Hominem: - maybe I am guilty - but only maybe
I find the allegations so ludicrous that I won't even dignify them with an
answer.
What makes this nation strong is the diversity of opionion and the laws
that protect free expression. Mr. Feingold has his opinion, and I have mine.
There are people in this country who would quash free expression. And
there are people who obfuscate. I think it becomes obvious to the net who is
who.
Let me pass on something for those of you who would be staunch anti-
communists. There is more to Communism than meets the eye. Communism is a very
deep, insidious cancer. It has many symptoms. Its history dates back far,
far further than Marx and Engels. Whenever a person starts digging around
too close to the truth, the "flames" start. Then you'll know exactly what
you're dealing with.
I don't really intend to convince anybody of who I am, where I've been,
or my religious/political beliefs. To each his own.
But maybe, just maybe, I've made somebody THINK. Maybe somebody will go
home and think, "Who are these groups that Black and Feingold are ranting
about? What are they saying that's so bad? Why does the ADL jump all over
them? Maybe I should read some of their literature and find out." If I
get to ONE person, I've done what I set out to do. What's really dangerous is
that there's of couple of million people just like me, doing the same thing,
only many of them are far more professional and far more dedicated.
Sure I draw lightening. I would be more dangerous if I sat back and
said nothing. Right now you know where I stand. If I were silent, you wouldn't
know what anybody was up to.
So look around. Ask yourself if a man is really a Nazi because he doesn't
support the Israeli State, or because he doesn't tow the line of the Anti-
defamation League. Ask yourself if a man is a KGB agent because he espouses
the cause of liberty as put forth in the Declaration of Independence, or
because he advocates a return to Constitutional principals.
Then take a closer look at who is making those accusations.
--Don "the (FILL IN THE BLANK)" Black