Bob Bruen wrote:
I also would caution against trying to censor information just because one does not it or the source.
I wasn't intending to censor. People post links to things of interest here all the time, including items that many might not agree with. I objected to Danny's reprinting of the whole thing verbatim, giving a "you must read this" air to a piece that certainly doesn't deserve that level of attention.
Mueller may have gone overboard with his statements, but he is still someone other people respect and like. He is not simply a "tinfoil-hat" guy, that should be dismissed.
Convince me. He was one of the founders of NCUC and must be credited for that. But he now comes across as a parent who perceives his child is in danger, flailing away with any tactic available -- no matter how crude or hurtful or false, oblivious of consequence -- to protect. Every time he puts finger to keyboard he discredits himself more (as witness by his followup replies to Cheryl). Trouble is ... the more he flails away, the less people will believe that the child deserves protection. In Sydney I was relatively neutral about Milton, today it seems to me he's a foil wrapper away from total nutbar. And every day that the NCUC of today fails to distance itself from his words, it is associated a little bit more with his character. At this particular point in time, the NCUC can little afford such damage to its credibility. I care about this only because I don't want to see NCUC to descend into irrelevance due to its founder's abandonment of civility. It's not in ALAC's tactical interest to have NCUC as an impotent laughing stock.
It is better to know what one is dealing with than not. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," Sun Tzu, Art of War.
May be, but I don't consider Milton my enemy. The vested interests, domainers, exploiters, phishers, censors and overzealous IP interests are (still) my enemies. Milton is a distraction, a nuisance. But not more than that. - Evan PS: Talking about censorship.... a posting I made on that thread has yet to show up on the website....