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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.213253.792@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Precipitating Pendulums Postal Party Poopers
- References: <1992Nov9.145946.4373@inel.gov> <Jym.12Nov1992.0901@naughty-peahen> <JMC.92Nov12102213@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:32:53 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Nov12102213@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Many of us consider that it is "Speak lies to power". Moreover, Greenpeace
- >has the money and publicity to be a considerable power itself and uses
- >it for bullying people whose livelihoods they decide to interfere with.
- >
- >The slogan "Speak truth to power" expresses arrogance as to who has
- >the truth.
-
- Who's more arrogant, a Quaker speaking their own truth (and our own
- truths are all we have) or John McCarthy telling us what this phrase,
- belonging to a 300+ year old religious and social tradition actually
- expresses ?
-
- -- paul
-
- ps. I'm not a Quaker, although my wife and her family are.
- --
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a
- little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider
- price only are this man's lawful prey.
- John Ruskin
-