Equally amazing...how you can apply a political slant to my message, the sentiment of which was aimed at ALL those who mis-use the priviliges provided by the List, regardless of which camp they are in, like I said " they know who they are " Nigel ----- Original Message ----- From: "FrankandTeri" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Parasites?... You just can't let a Donkey or an Elephant "into the house for just a bit" and not expect a mess.... > Amazing... You have just joined the group you suggested trade insults and > don't belong on this list. This problem must have existed long ago and > since I was not here then I take it you were not referring to me as a > Parasite. > > By the way I am all for cessation of this nonsense. However I will no > longer sit idly by and let the vocal minority insult religions, personal > beliefs, the president and our country. As far as I am concerned this list > should strictly adhere to exchanging information useful to Parkinson's, > their caregivers and those interested in helping as well as medical > professionals who wish to comment or gather information. It should refrain > from encouraging one sided activism and one sided political agendas. > > You can not open it up to limited activism that supports only certain > issues. > > You can not expect to consistently post "informational" articles critical of > peoples beliefs and politics and expect not to have backlash. > > You can not expect people to remain silent when their deeply held beliefs > are routinely insulted in the name of freedom of speech. > > You cannot allow a constant barrage of one sided opinions and then say to > stop when there is a response from the other side. > > You cannot limit informational articles to only the liberal press and yellow > journalist. > > You cannot offer credibility to only to left wing groups and not expect > conservatives to respond in kind. > > You just can't let a Donkey or an Elephant "into the house for just a bit" > and not expect a mess.... > > > Frank cg. Teri 52/47/40 15024 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Harland" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:49 PM > Subject: List Parasites revisited > > > > A few years ago when this list was going through another bout of name > calling and badmouthing I wrote a message entitled "List Parasites" which > essentially suggested that there were some people on this list whose only > contributions seemed to consist of insulting others and getting some warped > satisfaction from seeing their insults on screen. > > Well,here we are in 2004, and it's happening again. > > In my opinion these people ( they know who they are ) should have the > decency to take themselves off -list for a while and take time-out to recall > what this list was set up for in the first place. which certainly was not to > provide a platform for trading insults. > > > > Nigel Harland age 49 dx34 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn