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From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: _Boston Herald_ article on JEDR/Templeton case
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Date: 6 Dec 88 18:56:37 GMT
References: <8304@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <8304@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes:
>The _Boston Herald_ of 12/4/88, page 2, contains an article on the
>JEDR/Templeton case.  JEDR, who has decided not to post to the net for a
>while, would like you all to know that it contains errors...

He is not "deciding not to post" by having somebody else post his thoughts
for him.  All he is doing is the equivalent of casting a remark over his
sholder as he slams the door on the way out.  I would hope that he either
says what he has to say himself, and stays around for the discussion,
or doesn't say anything.


> I know JEDR personally, and I will vouch for his integrity.

In the face of his behaviour, this will take a LOT of vouching for.
Remember the "would you hire Morris" quiz?  I'll bet this guy would
fare much worse in that poll.



>The article also refers to his actions as "a one-man campaign."  What
>are Nancy Gould and David Makowsky, chopped liver?

They are people who have engaged in debate against great odds, for which
I think they have earned a lot of respect (if not much agreement).  JEDR
on the other hand has apparently tried to HARM the people he disagrees
with, out of an attitude of moral superiority.  This is beneath contempt.



>Furthermore, the _Boston Herald_ is (or, until very recently, was) owned
>by Rupert Murdoch, whose reputation for journalistic integrity, or lack
>thereof, is well-known.

Consider that statement, then consider that the Herald is the one that ran
the story.  I wonder if JEDR even tried to contact the Boston Globe, the
major newpaper in Boston.


>JEDR's current position, I believe, is: he doesn't want to deprive
>anyone of their Constitutional rights...

Which he is proving in a very strange way.  The Herald article says that
Richmond is a native of London, England.  Is he making this gracious
gesture, of not depriving people of their US Constitutional rights, as a
US citizen?


>Flames on Grand Issues of Free Speech and All That Bullshit go in
>/dev/null.

Whether you associate them that way in your mind is your own business.
I don't.

>: Seth Gordon / MIT Brnch., PO Box 53, Cambridge, MA 02139


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