[CS-FSLUG] America & Iraq

[Eduardo Sanchez]

David,

First of all, a warm welcome to the list :).

About the political discussions: It is requested of all members of the 
list engaging in political posts or discussion, to prefix the subjects 
of their posts with 'PD:'. In this way, it could be filtered out by 
people who are not interested in such things.

About your particular position, while I can certainly say that is not in 
agreement with many members of this list, I don't see a problem with 
that.

I generally stay out of political discussions. I'm too swamped to enter 
into that particular fray :).

So, please grab yourself a couch, get the popcorn and the iced tea, and 
come into the conversation :)

Blessings,


Eduardo
List co-admin

On Friday 05 November 2004 12:30, David Kemsley wrote:
> Dear Fred and other friends in Christ,
> 
> Firstly I'd just like to say how excited I was when I found this User 
> Group. I've been involved in other LUGs, each having a lot of Zeal for 
> the free software world. But this is the first I've come across with 
> members zealous for Christ and having an interest in Linux :D
> 
> Secondly I'd like to say I don't normally get involved in political 
> discussions. We all know this world is perishing which hopefully 
reminds 
> us where we need to have our focus - eternity with Christ! :). And of 
> course to see the urgency in letting people know of this great news. 
> Having said that, I tend to find myself getting frustrated over 
justice 
> in the world as I can see others do.
> 
> Thirdly, and I fear I'll get flamed off for saying this, but I don't 
> agree with most of the political stuff on this list. I'm against the 
war 
> on Iraq and the motivation behind it. I'm against the way George Bush 
> has used fear to drive a war which America needed to support itself 
> financially. I'm against the way other countries (including my own - 
> Australia) were dragged into a war which had nothing to do with them. 
I 
> find it hard to believe the propaganda that Iraq were a terrorist 
> threat, and that the war has now helped that (IMHO war only creates 
> terrorists). I find it hard to believe that it was a justice war 
against 
> an evil tyrant when it was America that put him in to power to begin 
with.
> 
> Why am I saying all this? To point out that not everyone sees things 
the 
> same way. I was disappointed to see all these political posts and have 
> felt somewhat alien to this list because of that. Thankfully we do 
have 
> things in common - Linux, and more importantly, our trust in Christ.
> 
> Would it be possible to limit the political opinions. I know I'm new 
and 
> I could always ignore them but I can see that if there's others who 
> don't see eye-to-eye about politics they would feel out of place too. 
> Perhaps another list for politics(?).
> 
> Please let me know if I'm not welcome and I'll promptly remove myself 
> from the list.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Fred Miller wrote:
> 
> >This is an EXCELLENT article, and written by someone with more 
experience and 
> >insight than most!
> >
> >Fred
> >
> 
>http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:KgNyWeKdBxsJ:www.libertyunites.tv/blog-535.html
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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