Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2004/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] scandal
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:19:23 -0400

At 08:34 AM 6/22/2004 -0400, Brian Schuth wrote:
>>Comments like this have NO PLACE in this forum, especially from
>>non-Americans. I would never DREAM of suggesting changes in YOUR
>>government, and it takes incredible chutzpah for you to criticize mine.
>
>Um. Perhaps *you* wouldn't think of suggesting changes in others'
>government, *we* (the USA as a country) has the most outrageous desire to
>criticize and even depose other governments. I think our national
>committment to free speech and the freedom of the individual might permit
>their citizens the right to express their opinions about change in our
>government in one sentence slogans in international forums.

One sentence slogans are easy, and usually misleading and/or
ill-informed. Serious discussion of the issues belongs in another
forum. Thus it would be best to keep politics off Klarinet.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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