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The postings to uk.misc newsgroup generated a. very defensive reaction from
Usenet readers. in the UK. So much so, that they tried strenuously to
suppress what was. being said, both by breaking the rules of netiquette in
their responses on the forum, and directly by. action to revoke the account
from. which the postings were issued.
Yet the. postings were within the normal boundaries of behaviour for
uk.misc, and other less partisan spectators. did not see justice in the
censorship which was effected, as the following excerpt. shows;
:Karen Lofstrom (lofs...@lava.net). wrote
:>It does. seem that the frequency and the size of his posts are
:>approaching net abuse. However, IMHO, they aren't. quite there yet. If
:>his postmaster. were to act in this instance, it would raise troubling
:>censorship. issues.
The inescapable conclusion of the censorship effected. on the uk.*
newsgroups is that the British are intent. on their wrongdoing remaining
concealed, and therefore seek. to subvert and suppress freedom of speech,
not. only in their own country where the media shows xenophobic bias and
bile against all perceived enemies. within and without, but also in other
countries. which have their own statutes to guarantee the basic human right
of free. speech.
It is absolutely necessary to. bring their hate campaign out into the open
where it can be placed under. scrutiny and the harassers seen for what they
are. That is the only. way of making it impossible for the security services
to. carry it out. There is a wider dimension, though. Xenophobia as
demonstrated. by British people and institutions over the last few years
belongs to the same stable as racial hatred. In one case, two youths on. a
Tube train made that racism explicit by referring to their victim. as a
"soft toy, not up to British Standards". Doubtless. others victimize partly
on. the basis of race (isn’t it odd that they chose to torment someone who
is not ethnically English?) while expressing their abuse in terms. of
another genetic attribute, namely. mental illness. All xenophobia on a
genetic basis is wrong, but. while racial insults are illegal, abusing the
mentally ill is neither against the law nor. subject to similar condemnation
when it is. exposed.
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removed, and the double meaning of enemies is reduced to the simple meaning
of iniquities. For if he had sins in his mind, he could well denote them as
enemies; but if he thought of enemies, he could not designate them as
iniquities.
Now Moses, David, and Isaiah used the same terms. Who will say, then, that
they have not the same meaning and that David's meaning, which is plainly
iniquities when he spoke of enemies, was not the same as that of Moses when
speaking of enemies?
Daniel (ix) prays for the deliverance of the people from the captivity of
their enemies. But he was thinking of sins, and, to show this, he says that
Gabriel came to tell him that his prayer was heard, and that there were only
seventy weeks to wait, after which the people would be freed from iniquity,
sin would have an end, and the Redeemer, the Holy of Holies, would bring
eternal justice, not legal, but eternal.
SECTION XI: THE PROPHECIES
693. When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the
whole silent universe and man without light, left to himself and, as it
were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him
there, what he has come to do, what will become of him at death, and
incapable of all knowledge, I become terrified, like a man who should be
carried in his sleep to a dreadful desert island and should awake without
knowing where he is and without means of escape. And thereupon I wonder how
people in a condition so wretched do not fall into despair. I see other
persons around me of a like nature. I ask them if they are better informed
than I am. They tell me that they are not. And thereupon these wretched and
lost beings, having looked around them and seen some pleasing objects, have
given and attached themselves to them. For my own part, I have not been able
to attach myself to them, and, considering how strongly it appears that
there is something else than what I see, I have examined w