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From: jj@alice.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sigh, Still Goetz?
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 15:55:44 EST
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OK, Mark, let's accept that he just isn't a vigilante.
Then just what DO we call Mr. Goetz?   Since vigilante
presumes organization, what could we call a bunch of 
UN-organized folks wandering around "protecting"
us from ourselves.  

Can't we ALL wait until we know some of the facts?  Can't we ALL
assume that we don't know exactly what happened,
when none of us do.  I realize that you clearly have a 
priveleged viewpoint, since you are sure beyond any shadow
of a doubt that he was facing four life-threatening criminals.
I won't believe that until I hear some facts, stated,
for once, in a non-self-contradictory fashion. (And here we're
talking about the "information" that the "news" media is
selling us.)

I'm sorry you don't like my hypothetical examples. Still,
that's YOUR problem, not mine.  I can easily imagine that
someone ELSE is disturbed enough to think I'm a mugger,
even though I don't look/act/feel/etc like one at all.
I didn't bring up Goetz in those paragraphs, you did.  I
didn't draw ANY parallel, you assumed them.  Why?
I suggested that others could take the "hero" welcome
that Goetz is getting as encouragement, and go on  a rampage.
(I'm NOT suggesting that Goetz DID, you notice!)

I'm not claiming that Goetz was wrong, I argued that he wasn't 
automatically right.  You seem to profess the same opinion.
Why don't you act that way?

JJ
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