[WikiEN-l] Viajero/Zero and Lance6 - POV terms

[Christopher Larberg]

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.
-Slowking Man
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Geoff Burling<mailto:llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> 
  To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org<mailto:wikien-l at Wikipedia.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:53 PM
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Viajero/Zero and Lance6 - POV terms

  *snip*

  On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Christopher Larberg wrote:

  > I'm not attempting to railroad this discussion off-track, but perhaps you
  > could find better places to post your sarcastically anti-American
  > vitriol.

  This one caught me off-guard & took me some time to compose a response.

  The point of my examples was to select some that were not as emotion-laden
  as the other ones we've discussed on this list: killings related to the
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict, White Supremacy, German-Polish relations. In
  trying to frame how to explain the facts & opinions, we too often get
  distracted by repeating the "facts". I had tried to pick some examples
  that would allow me to help everyone see where I was going, rather than
  become distracted with the ladder I was using to get us there. I obviously
  failed at this by my selection of controversial examples, & I'm sorry
  about that.

  However, as a U.S. citizen, I was under the impression that I was free to
  criticize any public figure, as long as I did not indulge in slander or
  libel. None of the things I wrote were either, & I am deeply offended that
  by exercising my right to free speech I am seen as being unfaithful to my
  country. Especially as that email has been the only time I said anything
  on this email list that could be considered critical of my country. And
  for the record, away from Wikipedia I am far less kind & restrained about
  what I say about the goofballs who are unashamedly grinding my country into
  the mud.

  Geoff
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