Timothy C. May: Re: Crisis Overload (re Electronic Racketeering)

Well, I guess I've been plonked by no less than Tim.

Time will tell which of us is correct.

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To: perry@imsi.com
From: tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Crisis Overload (re Electronic Racketeering)

At 6:30 PM 7/13/95, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>Tim, I respect your opinions a lot, but I don't think you know squat
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>about this topic. You don't understand how Washington works. I believe
>I have a better grasp on this than you do. Its hard, but not even
>remotely impossible, to derail this crap. We should make every
>possible effort to do so. The defeatism you are emitting is silly.
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Perry,

I have all I'm going to take of your acerbic rudeness to me.

I will no longer be responding to any of your messages.

- --Tim

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> Perry,
> 
> I have all I'm going to take of your acerbic rudeness to me.
> 
> I will no longer be responding to any of your messages.
> 
> --Tim

<sigh>

Everybody needs to take a deep breath and count to 1,000. Seriously,
we're all feeling plenty of stress today. Various people have been
talking about getting out of the U.S. while the going's good (?), and
it doesn't sound much like hyperbole this time. It's not surprising that
we're releasing our frustration on each other, lashing out at the nearest
quasi-tangible targets.

Don't let them do this to us -- to you !  Remember, in the grand scheme
of things, we are all very definitely on the same side of Evil like
S.974. We need to pause, gather our wits a bit, and focus on some debate
and action, rather than directing our anger at each other. This is no
time for infighting, grudges, etc.

-Futplex

[if this was too touchy-feely for ya, 
 feel free to vent some steam in private email ;]