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Re: IGNORANT views fuel oppression?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:08:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> I propose an OT-D Resolution 001--
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> In which all party(s) concerned, concurrently and without delay withdraw
> from specifically discussing the Israel/Palestine issue for a term of at
> least, but not limited to, one (1) month.
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> This resolution is proposed for the following reasons:
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> - This debate has caused much contention and flaming anytime it 'reared its
> uglay head'.
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> - This debate does not seem to settle on any solution which satisfies any or
> all party(s) involved in the debate.
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> - this debate has been ongoing for a long time with no end in sight.
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> I propose this resolution in the hopes that other debates will occur without
> the overriding Israel/Palestine debate war which often takes over this
> channel when it appears.
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> If this resolution is not passed, it will in no way affect this participants
> participation in the O.T.-D newsgroup.
Two comments
1. what's the "scope of the Israel/Palestine issue"... if some party(1) says
that something(2) is related, is it? If someone says something isn't, is it? (3)
2. what is the enforcement mechanism? Sent to bed without dessert? Shunning?
40 lashes with a wet noodle? Forcing someone to analyse in depth a
particularly hard to analyse post and report to the group on what it
purportedly says? No mechanism means no teeth means meaningless resolution (4)
But ya, I'm with Bruce. Ignore a certain party (even when he posts
interesting things, DAVID K... as I told you offline to do) and things get a
lot quieter.
1 - Saddam / Osama Bin Laden / a participant here
2 - Kuwait / the Twin Towers / pictures of spaceships, northern Ireland, or
discussion of what things were like (at the time of Jesus) in the holy land (5)
3 - This seems ripe for abuse if not defined... all someone has to do to
quash something is allege it's related. All someone has to do to open
something up is allege it's NOT related
4 - unless you were just going for humor value, which is OK but I sometimes
miss that level of subtlety
5 - to pick three topics that have in the past been at least tangentially
linked to I/P here in this very forum by participants
++Lar (former Model UN participant, who played the Pakistani ambassador :-) )
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