Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.strumenti.chitarra
Titolo: M,I`5 Persecuti on ' purp ose in publi cizing i t; ce nsorship in uk. * newsgrou ps

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The postings. to uk.misc newsgroup generated a very defensive reaction from
Usenet readers in. the UK. So much so, that they tried strenuously to
suppress what was being. said, both by breaking the rules of netiquette in
their responses on the forum,. and directly by action to revoke the account
from which the postings were. issued.
Yet the postings were within the normal. boundaries of behaviour for
uk.misc, and. other less partisan spectators did not see justice in the
censorship. which was effected, as the following excerpt shows;
:Karen Lofstrom. (
lofs...@lava.net
) wrote
:>It does seem that the frequency and. the size of his posts are
:>approaching net abuse.  However, IMHO,. they aren't quite there yet. If
:>his postmaster were to act in. this instance, it would raise troubling
:>censorship. issues.
The. inescapable conclusion of the censorship effected on the uk.*
newsgroups is that the. British are intent on their wrongdoing remaining
concealed, and therefore seek to subvert and suppress freedom. of speech,
not only. in their own country where the media shows xenophobic bias and
bile against all. perceived enemies within and without, but also in other
countries which have their own statutes to guarantee the basic human. right
of. free speech.
It is absolutely necessary to bring. their hate campaign out into the open
where it can be placed. under scrutiny and the harassers seen for what they
are. That is. the only way of making it impossible for the security services
to carry it out.. There is a wider dimension, though. Xenophobia as
demonstrated by British people. and institutions over the last few years
belongs. to the same stable as racial hatred. In one case, two youths on a
Tube train made that. racism explicit by referring to their victim as a
"soft toy, not. up to British Standards". Doubtless others victimize partly
on the basis of. race (isn’t it odd that they chose to torment someone who
is. not ethnically English?) while expressing their abuse in terms of
another genetic attribute, namely. mental illness. All xenophobia on a
genetic basis is wrong, but while racial insults are. illegal, abusing the
mentally ill is neither against the law nor. subject to similar condemnation
when it is. exposed.
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because they do not perceive the truth where it is, and, as they place it
where it is not, their opinions are always very false and very unsound.
329. The reason of effects.--The weakness of man is the reason why so many
things are considered fine, as to be good at playing the lute. It is only an
evil because of our weakness.
330. The power of kings is founded on the reason and on the folly of the
people, and specially on their folly. The greatest and most important thing
in the world has weakness for its foundation, and this foundation is
wonderfully sure; for there is nothing more sure than this, that the people
will be weak. What is based on sound reason is very ill-founded as the
estimate of wisdom.
331. We can only think of Plato and Aristotle in grand academic robes. They
were honest men, like others, laughing with their friends, and, when they
diverted themselves with writing their Laws and the Politics, they did it as
an amusement. That part of their life was the least philosophic and the
least serious; the most philosophic was to live simply and quietly. If they
wrote on politics, it was as if laying down rules for a lunatic asylum; and
if they presented the appearance of speaking of a great matter, it was
because they knew that the madmen, to whom they spoke, thought they were
kings and emperors. They entered into their principles in order to make
their madness as little harmful as possible.
332. Tyranny consists in the desire of universal power beyond its scope.
There are different assemblies of the strong, the fair, the sensible, the
pious, in which each man rules at home, not elsewhere. And sometimes they
meet, and the strong and the fair foolishly fight as to who shall be master,
for their mastery is of different kinds. They do not understand one another,
and their fault is the desire to rule everywhere. Nothing can effect this,
not even might, which is of no use in the kingdom of the wise, and is only