You apparently misunderstood me. My comments were directed towards S.
Vertigo and his tongue-in-cheek statements such as "Bush is a true patriot
and a national treasure" and his implication that people who support Bush are
attempting to inject such POV statements into the Wikipedia. My comments were in
no way directed towards you.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:53
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Viajero/Zero and
Lance6 - POV terms
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Christopher Larberg wrote:
> I'm not
attempting to railroad this discussion off-track, but perhaps you
>
could find better places to post your sarcastically anti-American
>
vitriol.
This one caught me off-guard & took me some time to
compose a response.
The point of my examples was to select some that
were not as emotion-laden
as the other ones we've discussed on this list:
killings related to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, White Supremacy,
German-Polish relations. In
trying to frame how to explain the facts &
opinions, we too often get
distracted by repeating the "facts". I had tried
to pick some examples
that would allow me to help everyone see where I was
going, rather than
become distracted with the ladder I was using to get us
there. I obviously
failed at this by my selection of controversial
examples, & I'm sorry
about that.
However, as a U.S. citizen, I
was under the impression that I was free to
criticize any public figure, as
long as I did not indulge in slander or
libel. None of the things I wrote
were either, & I am deeply offended that
by exercising my right to free
speech I am seen as being unfaithful to my
country. Especially as that
email has been the only time I said anything
on this email list that could
be considered critical of my country. And
for the record, away from
Wikipedia I am far less kind & restrained about
what I say about the
goofballs who are unashamedly grinding my country into
the
mud.
Geoff