Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site midas.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!midas!jeffw From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Il accuse... Message-ID: <32@midas.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 01:20:39 EST Article-I.D.: midas.32 Posted: Fri Nov 8 01:20:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:18:23 EST References: <487@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <34@unc.unc.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 21 > HERE HERE!!!! a voice of reason cries out!!!!!! > > > While I found the actions of the French government > distastefull in the Greenpeace affair I completely > agree with your observations. At the risk of pontificating > "those who live by the sword surely will die by it" Where? Where? Your risk is not so much pontificating as irrelevance. Greenpeace does not "live by the sword." Being selectively obnoxious hardly qualifies as violence in my book. The action of the French government was not only distasteful, but stupid. Thanks to its action, Greenpeace is now $100 richer than it was, courtesy of me. I'm sure many others reponded the same way. I hardly think that was the goal of the French government. Jeff Winslow