The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57758   Message #914607
Posted By: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo
20-Mar-03 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dixie Chicks Heroic Peace Band
Subject: RE: BS: Dixie Chicks Heroic Peace Band
Mr. Soresomethingoranother apparently also has difficulty
reading. I said I _was_ a DJ (for no pay) for a number
of years. A bit of intelligence or a Google search might
have come up with the conclusion that I wasn't a DJ at
a commercial station, so comments about "business [being]
real bad" are probably poorly aimed. This station did
_not_ have a play list, and I played whatever I damn
well pleased, as I'm sure the present DJs do as well.

Kim:

When you sit back and accept that there is no recourse
but _immediate_ war, or acquiesce to its legitimacy
because it's already started, you're letting others
do your thinking for you. If _you_ have decided that
this war is necessary _right now_, well and fine; we'll
disagree. But if you were of a different opinion but
now think that the time for silence has come, then I
think you do not do your own thoughts proper justice.
This is not a matter of yelling fire in a crowded
theatre. If anyone has been yelling "fire", I'd say it's
the maladministration with its colour code du jour and
its warnings of boogeymen in the night.

As for responsibility, I'd say that if you think that
war should only be a last resort, and that there is no
need to push to war at the _earliest_ possible moment,
then responsibility is _telling_ people that this is
what you think. Silence in the face of evil is no
virtue; in fact, there are those that say that such
silence has accounded for quite a few tragedies in
the course of history.

Herc:
I didn't know that Natalie Maines was related to Dubya,
and that this was just a little internecine feud of no
interest or consequence to the rest of us.
Thanks for that bit of info.

Cheers,

                            -- Arne Lnagsetmo