From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 21 16:24:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03B737B409 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a125.otenet.gr [212.205.215.125]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8LNOin29023; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:24:44 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8LNOfM02454; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:24:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:24:41 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010922022441.A2039@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010921173959.02994178@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010921173959.02994178@threespace.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Technical Information 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message