gsmith@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene W. Smith) (02/07/88)
In article <8801221146.AA00611@garnet.berkeley.edu> oreo!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >In article <8801210557.AA01465@oreo> oreo!gsmith@violet.berkeley.edu (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >>>In article <8801200541.AA19851@garnet.berkeley.edu> oreo!gsmith@violet.berkeley.edu (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >>And I think ignorance and bloody-mindedness is a bad combination, >>a dangerous combination, and it is, I submit, the combination >>which produces "facists" and many of the other depressing things >>we like to throw at each other as labels. [etc] >Anyone who knows me, or who has been reading my articles for several >years, knows that these positions are not mine, this style is not mine, >and these articles are not mine. Far be it from me to deride someone >who mocks the idiocy of someone laying in front of a moving train by >calling him bloodthirsty or stupid or "facist" or a Nazi. And fur Since it has occasioned some confusion, I suppose I should point out that the above disclaimer is itself a forgery. While my Willson articles may have struck some people as a little shrill (I began by assuming that most people knew the facts, which turned out to be completely wrong!) I did write them. I might add that the claim by Rhonda Scribner that the "Brahms Gang" has been involved in these forgeries is false. I am posting this to the news administration groups, as I think both these forgeries and the false attributions of them to innocent parties could become quite a serious problem, though I am unsure of what remedies there are even if the we could summon the will to adopt them. Any comments, gentlemen? ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 "These people aren't fascists, they are merely concerned that the trains run on time." -- Barry Shein