[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Dec 25 08:37:28 UTC 2008
Fred Bauder wrote:
>> I must agree with Mr Gerard, and taking that position, or any position
>> by the Foundation is a road I don't want to see WMF go down. I don't
>> want WMF to alienate anyone... anyone. The information must be free,
>> and global. For everyone.
>>
>> Please don't intrepet this message as my defending any group, I'm
>> not. I'm against oppression. However, I don't think the WMF should
>> be for or against anything, politically.
>>
>> Jon
>>
> Oh, but we are, just by what we do. And the mass murders of the twentieth
> century would have made short work of us. In fact, in the last regime
> controlled by them Wikipedia is blocked.
I suppose that in that comment we have the perfect justification for
excluding the mass murders of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. These mass
murders are the product of our kinder, gentler twenty-first century, and
not a part of twentieth century savagery.
Ec
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