I have been trying to stay out of this but I especially strongly AGREE with
your last statement and I quote "Lastly, and most importantly, in our
country, the Greatest Nation on Earth, to deny a man his voice is the
grandest display of intolerance imaginable."

Especially when Terry's "politically incorrect" street people talk was minor
compared to those who chose to bash him and criticize him. It's all in the
archives. Using a term like "si habla" is minor compared to the smut posted
to condemn him. Sometimes terms like that are street talk affection. We are
so quick to condemn and so slow to understand.

Bravo Richie!

William
aka Guillermo-de-San-Diego
1989 Vanagon GL Camper

> In a message dated 6/12/02 5:17:24 PM, jboldway@BEE.NET writes:
>
> << I was on the 2400 Fulton St.
> (Jefferson Airplane/Starship/Tuna) list about 6 years ago and it was
> destroyed by bickering and infighting by people who had no tolerance. This
> is the Vanagon list, administered by Tom C, who really does not need all
> these problems - he does it as a service. Sometimes I think he's forced to
> be a babysitter of a few hundred people who are supposedly adults. If it
is
> NOT VANAGON RELATED and NOT ON SUBJECT then please think of P-mailing.
> We've got another thread going where somebody is insulted by what somebody
> else said and both feel the need to reply to the list, not each other. Tom
> already had to suspend somebody over their inciting remarks >>
>
> I don't agree with what you have said in the least.  First of all, the
> destruction of anything dealing with a group as soulless as the Jefferson
> Airstarship is a service to mankind.  Secondly, the list administrator is
> only burdened to the degree to which he fells the need to control
something.
> Lastly, and most importantly, in our country, the Greatest Nation on
Earth,
> to deny a man his voice is the grandest display of intolerance imaginable.
>
> Richie