Re: MANSON DID 150 HRS. O

In article <3ptegb$sjq@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, dwtripp@aol.com (DWTripp) has read the group and now writes:

>*humor about clams
>*humor about Markabs
>*endless repition of illegal acts that range from 10 to 30 years ago
Old crimes are still crimes, and, given how $camItAllOhGee's people operate, it's sensible to expect that these crimes should take a while to get out in the open (witnesses have to get out of the cult, get sane, and get up the courage, etc.).

>*support of Wollersheim, a parasite who really just wants the $4 million
(You missed one:) *attacks on the cult, a parasite that really just wants the $4 million.

>*outrage about RPF traumas, most of which are 20 years old
Why do you emphasize the time elapsed between the offense and the revealing of it? What if I thwack you on the head, and then hide for a week--are you any less thwacked when I meet you on the street a week later? Or do you treat me as the (hypothetical) head thwacker that I (hypothetically) am?

[NOTE: The author does not advocate the thwacking of heads or any other body parts, and will not accept responsibility for any thwackings which are alleged to be caused by this post. All characters and events portrayed are entirely fictional, and any resemblance to actual thwackings, past or present, is purely coincidental. Thwack(TM) is a trademark of Thwump Intellectual Postindustries. This entire statement is a tremendously funny joke, as defined in "Lampoonery and You".]

>*paranoia about armed Scientologists
Armed *anyone* makes me pretty paranoid.

>*a general interpretation of free speech rights that cover the ars-hate
>crowd but imply that such rights might extend to hated groups (ie.,
>Scientlogy)
Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing?

>*tendency for spinelessness to be exhibited in the form of kilfiles (akin
>to a child sticking his fingers in his ears and singing loudly rather than
>hear).
More like, changing the channel when the news starts blabbing about the friggin' OJ thing....the similarity is rather interesting: in both cases, we just hear the same stuff, over and over and over....

`Rick Sherwood, DNA expert for the Simpson Defense team, drew the ire of Judge Ito today by simply repeating the words "coward", "nonconfront", "hatred", "bigotry", and "sycophant" for six hours on end, stifling all objections as "attempts at suppressing religious freedom". Ito eventually thwacked him with a gavel.'

>>Anyone who has spent a huge amount of money or effort
>>trying to achieve something is going to try and convince themselves that
>it
>>has been worthwhile. That is how confidence tricksters tend to be able to
>>get away with their scams for so long.
>
>That's a general statement that eliminates the possibility that the person
>may indeed have gotten value. By your logic, all sellers are hucksters,
>all customers are dupes. I'd suggest you examine economics and
>transactions a bit closer.
I missed the original post, but if that's all that was said, then you're wrong. The fact that people who sink money and effort into something want to believe that they're not getting ripped does not point to everyone being hucksters and dupes; it's just something that hucksters exploit to make dupes.

After all, there are AOL subscribers out there who think they're getting a good deal...

--Eric Smith (A longer rant than I'd expected to write, but, onward!)