[alt.current-events.net-abuse,...] Re: UseNet is badly administered.
Colm Buckley
[An excerpt from the interminable Michael John Falkner "Usenet is badly
administered" flamewar on alt.current-events.net-abuse. A particularly
*good* excerpt.]
From: att...@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Newsgroups: alt.current-events.net-abuse,talk.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: UseNet is badly administered.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 01:30:59 -0500
Organization: Waltonschauung Labs
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> = mfal...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Michael John Falkner)
> Right. Freedom without responsibility is no freedom at all.
And responsibility without freedom is not responsibility at all.
Totalitarian control of human beings means the death of responsibility,
as everyone is "just following orders."
<engage rant mode>
I would rather be a brain-dead junkie in a gutter with a sticky copy of
Hustler as a result of my OWN stupidity than a clean and well-fed
automaton in a tiki-taki house with my actions dictated by you or
another self-anointed earthly representative of God's Will ((C), All
Rights Reserved). I want to run through parking lots like a lunatic,
fall and scrape my knees. I want to color outside the lines. I want to
cover myself with lime Jello and run down the street shouting random
lines from Finnegan's Wake (are there any non-random lines in Finnegan's
Wake?). If I want to smack my skull against the wall, damn it, it's my
skull and my wall. If I want to sing the Leave it to Beaver theme in
Esperanto while whacking off with topless pictures of Sandra Bernhart
and standing ankle-deep in a galvanized steel tub full of Kraft Honey
Dijon salad dressing, that's none of your business.
And if this means that I'll be shot as an anarchist when the revolution
comes, so be it; I'd rather have the worm-eaten stench of a private tomb
than the prim, sterile, chrome-lined common tomb which people like you
want to make of the Earth. And when they decide that you're not quite
orthodox enough, I'll save you the next spot over up against the wall.
<rant mode off>
Clear enough?
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