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Article #602Re: Comments Re: Price Increase
From: wildman�
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:00
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In article <729llv$pq1$0@dosa.alt.net>, Ann , afsnews@hotmail.com tossed this
thought out into the electronic ether for all of us here to read, and
said.......
>
>George Waring wrote
>>(Stray Cat) wrote:
>
>
>
>>BTW, I don't blame Newscene at all. Their server was being used by a
>>large number of the CP posters. Mike McCartney had said publicly that
>>a Midwest Service provider was under investigation by the Feds.
>>Newscene assumed that they were that provider and panicked. After all,
>>the two NY ISP's merely had the "illegal content" on their servers.
>>There was no indication that it had been posted in NY. Yet those two
>>NY ISP's had their servers confiscated.
>>
>>Does this sound like Gubmint gone amok?
>
>It was an election year; talking tough on crime does get votes ...
>regardless if the action taken is ineffective. And, some parents, when they
>run across (or hear about) offensive material their first thought is that
>government should do something about it.
>
>Ann
>
And ironically, the last report I saw, the incumbent Attorney General of NYS,
Dennis Vacco, was losing the election, accused of defaming Hispanics with
derogatory comments, and being threatened with investigation for improprieties
with respect to election irregularities.
Government seldom runs amok; it is the politicians who muck up the system!!!
--
wildman
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd665,91d8b1786bdc7061 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd665,public From: just@little.pest� (wildman�) Subject: Re: Comments Re: Price Increase Date: 1998/11/10 Message-ID: <72a17q$dhs$0@dosa.alt.net> X-Deja-AN: 410675199 References: <36472a43.25936833@news.alt.net> <6621440343.140616047@news.stray.cat.edu> <36498c18.50985882@news.alt.net> <364aacee.15214061@207.14.113.10> <6621733477.255407773@news.stray.cat.edu> <3652bba4.18980637@207.14.113.10> <6622003275.12544371@news.stray.cat.edu> <36484b2b.419996@news.alt.net> <729llv$pq1$0@dosa.alt.net> Organization: nowhere.fast Reply-To: anywhere@you.like Newsgroups: altnet.general