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Subject: 
This is strange. (was: Re: What's a freedom fighter?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 25 May 2004 22:22:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
   At least, that’s a possibility of some of these ‘insurgents’. Maybe they think of themselves a ‘freedom fighters’.

I know, I know. I promised myself I’d try to stay away from .debate. But this freedom fighter thing got me thinking. What’s a freedom fighter? Who gets to decide? Were the IRA ever called freedom fighters? How are they generally perceived in Canada and Europe? A force for good, or a villianous gang?

Congratulations!

You’ve just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we’re right, the enemy is wrong. We’re brave, the enemy is villanous. We’ll win, the enemy will lose. We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he’s the enemy, again?

So if it really is all that muddy then what drives certain people

http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/

to post their opinion on it over and over and over and over and over, driving me nuts. I mean, I look at his background there and I don’t see anything that says “crazy person who posts propaganda to toy forums”.

This is totally an aside, but that is a very strange academic page, because it does not say where (from what institution) Scott got his PhD. Usually that is something that is broadcast far and wide to the heavens above, even in British universities. Scott, did you realize they didn’t include that information in your profile?

all best

LFB



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  Re: This is strange. (was: Re: What's a freedom fighter?)
 
(...) I have two work pages. This is "my" one, so the data you want is buried in the page... well the 1st paragraph really. Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) So if it really is all that muddy then what drives certain people (URL) post their opinion on it over and over and over and over and over, driving me nuts. I mean, I look at his background there and I don't see anything that says "crazy person (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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