Re: Modern censorship

From: Mensanator (mensanator_at_aol.compost)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: 18 Nov 2004 05:59:36 GMT

>Subject: Modern censorship
>From: jstevh@msn.com (James Harris)
>Date: 11/17/2004 7:06 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <3c65f87.0411171706.3f79aba8@posting.google.com>
>
>You read in history books about individuals harried by mobs,
>continually barraged with various attacks, who face outrageous
>behavior at the hands of some group, and then we come to a supposedly
>enlightened age with extraordinary tools for sharing information--and
>the same damn thing happens again.

Oh, you're back again. I thought you said you didn't need us anymore.

>
>Over the years that I've posted on PUBLIC forums the thing that has
>stood out is how out there, without shame, and without even hesitating
>to hide what they're doing--groups of people have made it their
>business to try to censor what I write.

Yeah, so what? It's a free country. There's no law against censoring you.

>
>Time after time they'd post to tell me to go away, or to tell others
>to ignore me, as these people made it their business to try to
>control.

Go away.

>
>When harassing me on Usenet wasn't enough, they took to putting up
>webpage--and if another one of you tries to claim that I harassed
>David Ullrich, a math professor who after harassing me for years
>dragged race into the picture talking about racial slurs, because I
>complained about him bringing race into the picture to his university,
>then you just make my point that much more forcefully. Race is not a
>tool to be used by some unethical math professor who thinks it's a
>neat way to insult someone on Usenet. David Ullrich was wrong to try
>to attack me with race, and I was right to call him on it, and
>complain to his school.

You were wrong. You were an *** then and you're still an ***.

>
>You people cheat.

Tough titty for you, isn't it?

>
>Sure I derided math journals for years but I wrote a paper and sent it
>to a journal, so some of you emailed that journal to get the paper
>censored.

So what are you going to do about it?

>
>You are disgusting cretins who follow no rules, no moral obligations,
>and you are irrational.

<blows raspberry>

>
>I can argue point for point, point by point, explain over and over
>again, as I've done for years, and one of you will just disagree to be
>disagreeable!

You can argue the points 'til you're blue in the face, you're still wrong.

>
>I offer compromise and get spat upon.

P-tui!

>
>History shows that there are always those of the mob, who take it upon
>themselves to try and control the few, or especially, the one.
>
>I'm thankful that this plays out over the Internet.

We're not. What's the matter, not getting any hits on your blog?

>
>In the past you are the people who would be tying someone to a stake
>to burn them and then, blaming the victim, shout your morality to the
>heavens, as if God listens to loudness above reason.
>
>You are the reason that we have a society of today where so many
>problems will not get addressed because a few people fight for control
>they do not have.

Most people just blame the Republicans.

>
>You wish to control others, to dominate the conversation, to force
>your will upon people who might want to say something you don't want
>to hear.

So?

>
>So still the webpages are there--some of you illegally using my
>copyrighted material to insult me--and you people refuse to give up
>your attempts at control despite the years, despite the stupidity of
>it all, despite the immorality.

Boo-hoo.

>
>But you do not control me. I post as I will despite your webpages,

We've already noticed that.

>despite emails you might send, despite the dedication with which you
>try to push me this way or that, or to push others, though, yes, most
>posters bend to your will.
>
>They are cows, and cowards. I watch them come and go over the years
>terrified to ever say anything at all objective about my work for fear
>that they'll be mobbed, as they will.

As they should. Anyone who supports you deserves to have a new *** reamed.

>
>But I will not be ruled. I will not be controlled by you. I will not
>be conquered.

And you won't get published, either. Guess what matters.

>
>And I will win. I have a paper at a major math journal. If they try
>to slide out of publication like others before them, it will go to
>another, and another, and another, as I adjust, shift the wording,
>learn the game, play the politics necessary to get published.

Sure, if one journal got suckered by your fraud, there's probably another.
Not that it matters. It won't survive being made public.

>
>And if it takes a decade I WILL GET PUBLISHED.

Care to make a wager on that?

>
>And then you will be part of history, part of the sad story of
>mobbings, and angry people willing to do so much wrong for the sake of
>their own sense of control. Yet another sad sorry tale among so many
>in a world of people who never learn their history.

You mean there was another math crank who turned out to be right all along?

>
>In a world where people refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past,
>not only to repeat them, but to wallow in the misery they create for
>others, to celebrate the destruction they wreak, and to pride
>themselves until the day they finally fall.

Please, please tell us what happened to The Hammer. My theory is that
you accidentally deleted it off your computer. Am I right?

>
>And humanity is so much the worse for all of the stink of it.

Gee, we'll just have to muddle through, deprived of your insights.

>
>
>James Harris 

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