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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:24:41 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Helping victims of terror
Message-ID:  <20010922022441.A2039@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010921173959.02994178@threespace.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010921173959.02994178@threespace.com>

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Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> wrote:
> 
> At 08:41 PM 9/15/2001, Piet Delport wrote:
> >[ disclaimer: I'm a South African with no official training in  ]
> >[ socio-politics, aside from what i glean from observation, and ]
> >[ reading the occasional book and/or other piece of literature. ]
> >[ So this is mainly an armchair opinion.                        ]
> 
> Believe me, after a tragedy of the magnitude that occurred on Tuesday, 
> we're all armchair politicians or generals or analysts or whatever.  I have 
> yet to meet the person that has no opinions on the events, so you're 
> certainly no less entitled to your own.

"Human beings are political by definition." - Aristotle.

With an event of such magnitude that affects another `polis' (the ancient
Greek world for `city') it takes an apolitical person to not have an opinion.
I have yet to find one...

-giorgos

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