XPost: misc.education, soc.bi, misc.kids.health   
   XPost: soc.rights.human   
   From: magid@catsincyberspace.concentriccircles.net   
      
   Barbara Schwarz wrote:   
   > Tell me how you can live in peace and in the pursuit of happiness if   
   > even educators promote how to build bombs and throw them? As long as   
   > there are so many crazy people on earth, we can't promote just about   
   > anything.   
   People did these things WELL before the Internet existed, Barbara.  You   
   may not believe it, but there were murders before they were newspapers!   
     Oh no!  How did people get the information out?  The Crusades weren't   
   on CNN.  Neither was the Crimean War...  World War I was on film.  World   
   War II was on film.  The first *war* that made the Internet would be   
   this latest one...  I suppose you could say that ARPANet had things   
   about the wars from the 70s when it started, but that's stretching things!   
      
      
   > It is a play with the next atrocity. It will happen because certain   
   > people are reckless on what they promote on their websites and when   
   > the authorities don't do a good job taking those sites down and   
   > penalize those that put them up.   
      
   Do you think that people who want to build bombs need the Internet to do   
   it, Barbara?  Do you think that the guy in Hollywood who shot a gun into   
   a crowd this morning needed the Internet for directions?  Do you think   
   the idiot that shot a kid in the face in Baltimore City needed the   
   Internet to learn how to do it?  How about the arsonists in DC, or Lee   
   Malvo in Northern Virginia?  Do you think that they needed the Internet   
   to blow up the abortion clinics?   
      
   Well?   
      
   Magi   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)