Re: (Fwd) Re: Mr. May's Posts. Other Things.

On or About 30 Dec 96 at 18:16, jim bell wrote:

> At 04:33 PM 12/30/96 -0800, Ross Wright wrote:
> >This is the message I got in response to my post regarding Mr.
> >May's offensive, racist, and bigoted post about ebonics.
> 
> 
> His comments were not "offensive, racist, and bigoted."  They were

Be that as it may, it is still no call for threats of gunplay!  That 
is NOT funny.  I take such things very seriously.

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Ross Wright
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http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia
Voice: 415-206-9906

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Ross Wright wrote:

> Be that as it may, it is still no call for threats of gunplay!  That 
> is NOT funny.  I take such things very seriously.

So let me see if I've got this right.  Threatening to slap 
someone is okay, but threatening to defend one's self from such
an attack is not okay?  Interesting.  I guess the old saying
still applies, "the essence of humor is WHOSE ox is being gored."


 S a n d y

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Sandy Sandfort wrote:
 
> So let me see if I've got this right.  Threatening to slap
> someone is okay, but threatening to defend one's self from such
> an attack is not okay?  Interesting.  I guess the old saying
> still applies, "the essence of humor is WHOSE ox is being gored."

  Ha, ha--ouch!

At 7:52 PM -0800 12/30/96, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Ross Wright wrote:
>
>> Be that as it may, it is still no call for threats of gunplay!  That
>> is NOT funny.  I take such things very seriously.
>
>So let me see if I've got this right.  Threatening to slap
>someone is okay, but threatening to defend one's self from such
>an attack is not okay?  Interesting.  I guess the old saying
>still applies, "the essence of humor is WHOSE ox is being gored."

As I said, I have been filtering Ross Wright, along with about 20 other
such twits. I learned of his posting of my private mail to him from the
responses such as this one (and by Blanc, and one via a remailer).

Wright needs to learn some manners. As for my _threatening_ him, he's
welcome to contact his local police department if he feels I was being
"unfair" by responding to his threat to me by saying I'd blow him away if
he tried it.

As for me, if he carries through on his threat to "slap me around," I'll
welcome the chance to defend myself using the tools at my disposal.

--Tim May

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