[Am-info] Re: Add witness tampering to the list

[ethical@1of1.net]

In a message dated 2002 April 17 (Wednesday), timestamp 10:56 AM, 
   on the topic Re[2]: [Am-info] Add witness tampering to the list,
   Gene Gaines <gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com> wrote:

"|I mean, gee, criticizing Gates would be akin to criticizing a mass
"|murder sitting in a tower picking off his enemies with a rifle,
"|because, gee, he hasn't been convicted yet, and we all know, gee,
"|his past convictions for doing essentially the same thing have no
"|bearing on his current actions, I mean, gee, legally, that is.

Chill, dude.  Your sarcasm makes you look totally ridiculous and --
what concerens me more -- discredits genuine criticism of Microsoft on
matters for which not only can Microsoft be criticized, but of which
it has repeatedly been found guilty by rigorous evidence.  Chicken
Little soon finds himself ignored, and your out of proportion response
is rapidly moving you to Chicken Little territory. 

Are you running out of things that Microsoft can be criticized for? 
Do you need a list to get back on message? 

"|OK, OK, I know, I know, the news story proves that Reuters is Anti-
"|Microsoft.

That is your line, not mine.  By imputing it by implication to a
poster on this list who has a long history of criticism of Microsoft,
you are relegating yourself to the lunatic fringe. 

"|I feel like writing about this issue is like beating a dead horse.
"|and he is one of the ugliest horses I have ever seen, and I don't
"|like even being near the animal.  Trouble is, the horse ain't dead
"|yet.

You have a lot better chance of convincing people if you stick to the
bad things Microsoft actually has done -- there is plenty of material
available -- and do not try to allege that Gates is a conflation of E.
Howard Hunt and Dita Beard (use your Google search engine if that went
over your head) simply because somebody asked Gates for a favor. 
Again, with a record like Gates has, you hardly need to fabricate a
bad rap. 



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