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Everett wrote in part:</P>
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size=2></FONT><BR>I guess I'll take on your inquiry, who speaks for wolf.
I think on this list I'm likely of the wolf breed. In a private
interchange with Michael Hermann, re: Mr. Krauthammer's column that I posted
earlier, in which he wanted to clarify my views, I responded with the following
to the question "Where do you stand?" I have added one sentence that I
didn't think of before regarding the papal encyclical and a clarification on the
reading comment. </P>
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Michael,<BR><BR>Where do I stand? Open and free inquiry. Listening
to many sides, and all sides. Voltaire had it right---"I do not believe in
what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Asking all the possible questions as a
means for discovery [check; <U>all</U> the questions]. Openly questioning
the Convention Wisdom of this listserv that is heavily weighted to those who
expect a loving response to sway Mr. bin Laden and his murdering followers
[possible assumption and oversimplification? I for one have seen no “voting” in
this forum, only open discussion of the very questions - and possible
answers - that CNN and its ilk are not raising]. Good luck.</P>
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size=2></FONT><BR>Mr. Krauthammer [a nom de plume, one hopes?] asks some very
important questions. We also need to ask some hard questions. Prudens
questio dimidium scientiae---to ask the proper question is half of knowing
[check; Socrates himself would agree]. Why are not the Imam's of Islam the
world over vigorously condemning the concept of suicide bombers as being
something out of Islam, as claimed by the fundamentalists? Why are they so
relatively quiet? Where are the equivalent of the Papal Encyclical or the
Ex Cathedra pronouncement condemning, unequivocally, with no obfuscation, the
actions of ALL suicide bombers as being nowhere in the teachings of Islam
[perhaps they are not infallible like he is when speaking “ex Cathedra”?].
Where is the fatwa against suicide bombing of every kind?<BR><BR>Are they going
to be like the Christians and liberals in Germany and the West, especially
Britain, and including the USA, who stood silently by while the Jews and Gypsies
went to the gas chambers by the millions? Or, like the gullible "liberals"
who praised Stalin ("I have seen the future, and it works") while he murdered
millions of his own people? If we remain silent, the very rocks will cry
out, I think [check].<BR><BR>Might it be that there is some truth to the general
population's belief that Islam isn't necessarily a peaceful religion, not really
benign, with respect for those who do not belong to their religion [oh, you mean
like Christianity?]. Certainly not benign, or good, for women, even in the
"liberal" Islamic countries. That maybe the<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>fundamentalists of Islam have it right,
that violence is tolerated by their religion? Or, advocated if it is
against the Infidels? Infidel, that's me, for sure, don't know about you
or your religious leanings. None of my business [check].<BR><BR>You might
think that I'm a radical rightist. Far, far from it. I see myself as
a fairly steely-eyed realist with a soft heart for the downtrodden of
[American?] humanity. I believe the people of the US are sick, ill at
heart, from their wealth. Their materialism (may) be their downfall,
imho. There is the iron law of responsibility---to those who have been
given much, of them will much be required [or how about: “I have seen the enemy
and it is us”?]. We don't understand that yet, except for a very few
[maybe even some on this list]. Maybe Sept. 11th is the needed wake-up
call [maybe!]?</P>
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size=2></FONT><BR>We build billion dollar stadiums with public tax money to
watch over-paid children play sports while our streets teem with the desperately
poor, without hope or real help. We pay our teachers, the shapers of the
future, niggardly salaries and don't demand enough of them or our children (I'm
not a teacher, I'm a business consultant). We produce 25% illiterates or
functional illiterates (that's for reading---the numbers are far worse for math,
not to mention critical thinking) from our school system and don't look to see
that there are much better ways to educate children (I use a system of teaching
reading for my clients who have many illiterates in their employ that is 99.5%
successful in teaching anyone to read as fluently as they talk---and I mean
anyone, no matter what they have been "diagnosed" as having---dyslexia, adhd,
mental slowness, etc., at the rate of 1 grade level gained per 10 hours of
tutoring, which is 10x faster than the usual program). We can't seem to
figure out how people can get a modicum of medical care while our governments
and insurance companies are busy destroying the best medical care in the
world. (The stories my brother, an MD, can tell you would make you
weep.) Very disheartening.<BR><BR>Anyway, I don't want to get into an
argument with you, [oh] or a jeremiad [nice word!]. I posted that column
because I thought it had some points of view we'd better pay attention to if we
are to figure this whole thing out and move accordingly. We need to know
the real position of the Islamic clerics and leaders of the world. The
real position of Islam for we non-believers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think they'd better start speaking
up. Freedom, in all [check, all] it's ramifications, is far, far too
precious to be lost or cloaked under the blanket of PC [personal computers?
persecution complexes?].<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Paul Everett<BR><BR>Today, I
would add that we need to do both, stop the terrorists by force [why necessarily
by force?] AND to begin an even greater effort to win over [interesting term:
“win over”] the minds and hearts of the people of the nations that are currently
harboring terrorists bent on our destruction. Make no mistake, that is
their goal, the downfall of the West, because they despise our values, including
those of freedom of religion, assembly, press, speaking out, petition, etc.,
contained in the Bill of Rights [interesting identification of “we”
and “the West”]. It makes for an immoral society, in their view, one that
must be destroyed. Especially it makes for an immoral society for
women. (Are you women on this listserv listening and observing what is
really going on?) For those of you doubting their intention, you haven't
been listening or watching, as we didn't listen to Hitler in Mein Kampf or Lenin
in his writings, to our great sorrow. We'd better listen and act now
[check].<BR><BR>Below is another too-strong piece that has a substantial element
of truth in it. He, unfortunately, does not bring up the way of inclusion
for those not bent on our destruction, but that is not his mission in this
piece. He is speaking only of the terrorists and the pacifists. Many
of you won't like his writing [check] but I can assure you, being out in the
work world with folks who get things done, build things, dig trenches, haul
garbage, clean sewers and make things, they are on his side and not the side of
those on this listserv, in general [so the folks on this list don’t live in the
“work world”? Is work to be defined as physical only?). That's what the Gallup
poll numbers mean. I doubt we will allow another WTO- or Mardi Gras-like
riot in Seattle. They will be crushed [hmm, while expressing their
freedom of speech and assembly?].</P>
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also can't any longer carry my nail clipper or pocket knife I've carried for 30
years when flying. My freedom is being further compromised but I'll deal
with it rather than allow terrorists to kill at will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we must resist is turning the US
into a police state [see previous comment re “crushing”]. We must also
resist and destroy terrorists and those governments and leaders harboring them,
physically, where they live [one sure is glad that McVeigh and friends
didn’t do it]. To fail to do that is to fail our future. That is my
position.<BR><BR>Paul Everett</P>
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