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<DIV>You apparently misunderstood me. My comments were directed towards S.
Vertigo and his tongue-in-cheek statements such as "Bush is a true patriot
and a national treasure" and his implication that people who support Bush are
attempting to inject such POV statements into the Wikipedia. My comments were in
no way directed towards you.</DIV>
<DIV>-Slowking Man</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:llywrch@agora.rdrop.com
href="mailto:llywrch@agora.rdrop.com">Geoff Burling</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:wikien-l@Wikipedia.org
href="mailto:wikien-l@Wikipedia.org">wikien-l@Wikipedia.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WikiEN-l] Viajero/Zero and
Lance6 - POV terms</DIV>
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<DIV>*snip*</DIV>
<DIV><BR>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Christopher Larberg wrote:<BR><BR>> I'm not
attempting to railroad this discussion off-track, but perhaps you<BR>>
could find better places to post your sarcastically anti-American<BR>>
vitriol.<BR><BR>This one caught me off-guard & took me some time to
compose a response.<BR><BR>The point of my examples was to select some that
were not as emotion-laden<BR>as the other ones we've discussed on this list:
killings related to the<BR>Israeli-Palestinian conflict, White Supremacy,
German-Polish relations. In<BR>trying to frame how to explain the facts &
opinions, we too often get<BR>distracted by repeating the "facts". I had tried
to pick some examples<BR>that would allow me to help everyone see where I was
going, rather than<BR>become distracted with the ladder I was using to get us
there. I obviously<BR>failed at this by my selection of controversial
examples, & I'm sorry<BR>about that.<BR><BR>However, as a U.S. citizen, I
was under the impression that I was free to<BR>criticize any public figure, as
long as I did not indulge in slander or<BR>libel. None of the things I wrote
were either, & I am deeply offended that<BR>by exercising my right to free
speech I am seen as being unfaithful to my<BR>country. Especially as that
email has been the only time I said anything<BR>on this email list that could
be considered critical of my country. And<BR>for the record, away from
Wikipedia I am far less kind & restrained about<BR>what I say about the
goofballs who are unashamedly grinding my country into<BR>the
mud.<BR><BR>Geoff</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>