Re: elvis@graceland.com: Re: Postel's Draft

[Dick desJardins <desjardi@eos.nasa.gov>]

John, you should be more careful with your discourse on
Internet discussion lists.  This is beyond the range of
acceptable discourse:

>socialist politboro ... most offensive pieces of totalitarian
>crap that the world has ever seen ... if someone really took away
>everything that I had and did
>it for some liberal political cause, that I would go out in a blaze of
>glory, taking as many of them with me as possible. ... >You people
>on the ad-hoc cmte will just have to watch your back. When
>you perpetrate an act of opression on people, you have to expect
>them to be mad, as some may go to extremes.

Obviously, as you are one of the people that have been the
most vocal as to your investment in .EARTH and .USA, any
reasonable person would include you in the "they" that you
write about.  I'm not a lawyer or a policeman, but I believe
you are treading on the wrong side of the line here.

The people who say that any death threat, explicit or implicit,
is illegal, are correct.  And certainly not allowed on Internet
discussion lists.  Period.

Dick desJardins, speaking for myself
----

At 4:29 AM -0500 1/2/97, John Palmer wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Anyone here think this is an actual death threat from Simon Higgs (the
>> > owner of graceland.com and most certainly the owner of the machine
>> > that delivered this message to my mail server) or is it just chaff that
>> > I should be ignoring?
>> >
>> > Perry
>
>I have no idea wether he did it or not, but you people in the IAHC
>should realize that people, when faced with having everything taken
>from them, when faced with the loss of 18 months hard work because a
>socialist politboro took a simple mandate (polish up Draft-Postel a
>little) and cranked out one of the most offensive pieces of totalitarian
>crap that the world has ever seen, people will tend to fight back to
>save their livelyhood and hard work.
>
>I know that, if someone really took away everything that I had and did
>it for some liberal political cause, that I would go out in a blaze of
>glory, taking as many of them with me as possible.
>
>You people on the ad-hoc cmte will just have to watch your back. When
>you perpetrate an act of opression on people, you have to expect them
>to be mad, as some may go to extremes. Perhaps you ought to hire the
>same people who guard Saddam Hussein - he seems to have survived alot
>of hit attempts.
>
>Happy New Year


Dick desJardins
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