It occurs to me that perhaps some of the posters of the "rants" and
"flames" just might be FBI plants or agent provocateurs. I know it
sounds off the wall. But if you think about it: A few people take up
lots of the 60's list's time posting provocative lengthy diatribes
designed to make people respond in very radical ways or succeeding in
"turning off" many list members to participating in the List. This
behavior is hard to ignore and harder to take for us who are interested
in having a meaningful dialogue and exchange of information relating to
the 60's.
If a government agency or private organization wanted to "shut down" the
60's list this is a good tactic. Since the list has come back online a
handful of people have dominated with topics designed to provoke. In my
opinion this is making the list at best a "joke" at worst a irrelevant
chat room.
Of course the decision to post or not to post and even to include or not
include rests with the moderator. But what good will a 60's list be to
anyone if it is such a bummer reading most of the posts that you just
wind up deleting and eventually unsubscribing.
It should come to no surprise to people on the list that I am one of the
important movers and shakers of the 60's and I do have lots of things to
"share" but in the current climate I really find "sharing" impossible
and very soon if nothing changes I will probably unsubscribe.
Is this our legacy of the 60's? I think not but it certainly is the
"climate" on the list at the moment.
cheers, Country Joe McDonald
-- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness
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<http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale>
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