Re: [Foundation-l] School shooting threats

Hoi, There is not much that we can do that is credible. There are things closer to home that we do not deal with which is a more credible threat. Problems with harassment, people leaving our projects because they feel unsafe. People who take pleasure in outing Wikimedians with name and address. People who find pleasure in maligning the people of our organisation and do whatever they can to make their life miserable. These nasty activities are happening, they are observable, they are even punishable under the law. They do not only damage to the people directly involved, they make some of our best and brightest turn away from their Wiki activities in fear of being next. These are not theoretical dangers, some of them are arbcom cases, Some are outside what the arbcom wants to consider. When you consider the risk of someone actually emptying a magazine of bullets in a frenzy of despair, it is small, there are few people who can adequately deal with such cases. This does not mean that we should not pay attention, We should but we should pay more attention to what is happening right in front of our face. We should not tolerate the nastiness of certain people with the argument that they have done some good as well. These two faced are deliberately maintaining a positive side in order to get away with their dark side. If you ask my motivation for this rant, it is seeing people I cherish as the best and brightest of us telling me why they are moving away. They often tell only the people they trust why they are moving away. When I see them suffer under this barrage of evil it makes me really angry. It is this anger that makes me speak out. Thanks, GerardM Threads like the school are playing for the audience. When doing a risk analysis you will find that On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Voice of All <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com> wrote: