cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich) (06/13/85)
[] I was going to compose a reply to Don Black's latest, but Charley Wingate beat me to it. He even anticipated my opening line "just when you thought it was safe ..." Mr. Black's postings are a classic example of the Big Lie tactic. Note the accumulative effect, of steadily increasing violence and intensity. This is how Mr. Black deals with counter-arguments: if you try to argue against one implausible statement, he simply follows up with something even more implausible and outrageous. He simply shouts down the voice of reason. He may even prevail in argument with saner minds, because one doesn't know where to begin refuting him. By the time you figure it out, he's off on another, scarier, kick. He is serious. I don't think he's an AI program, nor is he the collective alias of a little group of jokers. Sad to say (and alarming), he probably thinks he means what he says. We needn't be swayed by the content of it, however. There are a few points that haven't been remarked on by the net: (a) On Memorial Day he suggested that all the Vietnam Vets thought as he does, and will be ready to rise up and smite the one-worlders. This is only Mr. Black's fantasy. (b) The claim that there is no income tax comes from the same guy who thinks that there was no Holocaust. And that the Jews (including Jesus (I mean, Yeshua)) aren't really Jewish. Regards, Chris -- Full-Name: Christopher J. Henrich UUCP: ..!(cornell | ariel | ukc | houxz)!vax135!petsd!cjh US Mail: MS 313; Perkin-Elmer; 106 Apple St; Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 Phone: (201) 758-7288
tos@psc70.UUCP (Dr.Schlesinger) (06/16/85)
Henrich's comments about Black indicate to me that Henrich hasn't
had a good look at John Birch Society literature, or that of some of
the associated Kook-Right ilk. Black's comments reflect hook-line-and
sinker falling for the JBS line. I suggest it's beneath contempt and
useless to respond... the approach is extreme political paranoia, and
when one argues with a paranoid, the latter by definition always will
assume that the one disagreeing with him is part of "them"... those
terrible monsters lurking in dark corners and undermining what would
otherwise (in the paranoiac's views) be an absolutely perfect society.
Conclusion: Don't dignify that sort of thing with any response.
Tom Schlesinger
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, N.H. 03264