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kesey · 01-25-2009, 05:30 AM

Dear, dear, dear mssmith,

What has being a new member got to do with being "tarred and feathered"? If you quietly, discretely and demurely walk into a theatre and choose to shout "Fire" where there is no fire - thereby causing a stampede in which people get injured, should the polite and courteous manner of your entrance and the fact that you are a new entrant to the theatre mitigate prosecution for the damage you have done?

Hannibal Lecter was the epitome of politeness and courtesy as he prepared his meals. His delicate incisions, his tender dissections, as he made carpaccio while listening to Bach or Mozart or Beethoven were in the most wonderful taste. Those dined upon might have chosen to disagree with what was being done to them, but you would be happy that the courtesy and kindness with which he treated his meal provider should excuse Mr. Lecter from any legal retribution afterward?

Your argument was not simple. The U.S.S.R., China, Germany before and during W.W.II, not to mention many other regimes, had from time to time efficient methods of removing dissent or "attacks on their rightly held beliefs". Do you hold that they were correct in so doing? Perhaps we should create a literary Siberia or Guantanamo for Sony and their like, where all rights could be removed and they could ski or bathe in the sun to their heart's content in their gulag of choice?

Having a London bus displaying a banner which says "There is probably no God" is not an attack on any who might believe or choose to believe that there is a God. It is an invitation to discuss the arguments over a nice coffee and croissant

If I, as a person who might passionately believe that George W. Bush is the greatest human being in human history, want to read a book which does not agree with my rightly held belief that no one has done more to promulgate the cause of freedom, to safeguard the right to privacy and the safety of the world's citizens: why stop me? Why stop Sony publishing an extract from such a book, a book which might help to correct the beliefs of many of the planet's sadly misguided?

Be at peace ma petite.

01-25-2009, 05:30 AM	#104
kesey Enthusiast Posts: 71 Karma: 490394 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cork Device: Kindle Keyboard	Dear, dear, dear mssmith, What has being a new member got to do with being "tarred and feathered"? If you quietly, discretely and demurely walk into a theatre and choose to shout "Fire" where there is no fire - thereby causing a stampede in which people get injured, should the polite and courteous manner of your entrance and the fact that you are a new entrant to the theatre mitigate prosecution for the damage you have done? Hannibal Lecter was the epitome of politeness and courtesy as he prepared his meals. His delicate incisions, his tender dissections, as he made carpaccio while listening to Bach or Mozart or Beethoven were in the most wonderful taste. Those dined upon might have chosen to disagree with what was being done to them, but you would be happy that the courtesy and kindness with which he treated his meal provider should excuse Mr. Lecter from any legal retribution afterward? Your argument was not simple. The U.S.S.R., China, Germany before and during W.W.II, not to mention many other regimes, had from time to time efficient methods of removing dissent or "attacks on their rightly held beliefs". Do you hold that they were correct in so doing? Perhaps we should create a literary Siberia or Guantanamo for Sony and their like, where all rights could be removed and they could ski or bathe in the sun to their heart's content in their gulag of choice? Having a London bus displaying a banner which says "There is probably no God" is not an attack on any who might believe or choose to believe that there is a God. It is an invitation to discuss the arguments over a nice coffee and croissant If I, as a person who might passionately believe that George W. Bush is the greatest human being in human history, want to read a book which does not agree with my rightly held belief that no one has done more to promulgate the cause of freedom, to safeguard the right to privacy and the safety of the world's citizens: why stop me? Why stop Sony publishing an extract from such a book, a book which might help to correct the beliefs of many of the planet's sadly misguided? Be at peace ma petite. Last edited by kesey; 01-25-2009 at 05:43 AM.