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its over from here
- Subject: its over from here
- From: cd@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:58:00
M.G.G. Pillai wrote:
>
> > From: dawn star <cd@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Burma's constitution meeting takes a break
> >
> ==snipped==
>
> > are your sincerely wanting to learn something or just being provocative,
> > its really not clear. I just returned from New Delhi Convention on the
> > Restoration of Democracy in Burma, and Nepal, close , very close to
> > Burma, and jerks like you should keep shut or show off their stupidity.
> > You got a lot to learn whoeveryouare. Stick it.You sound more like a
> > slorc twit than ever I heard in the last six months. Go to Pizza Hut
> > order a bunch and vomit over yourself. Invite some proslorc cronies to go
> > with you. Fuck off. CD Dawn Star
> >
> >
>
> Unlike you, I want to learn what is going on in Burma. As a
> journalist, I look at all sides of a question, get the information I
> can and evaluate. I do not automatically believe anyone just because
> he is anti-Slorc, or spouts a story that damns Yangon; nor do I
> accept anything that Yangon dishes out.
>
> But all I get here is a series of assertions, and hopes, an
> inability to see the other fellow's point of view, and a particular
> penchant to flame anyone who looks at these assertions with a modicum
> of doubt. In your eyes, because I do not agree with you, I am
> stupid. I am always learning something, especially etymological
> definitions, here: a troup group is denied permission, and Oxford
> Dictionary can be presented with a new definition of "snoop" and
> "thief"; because you attended a conference in New Delhi and visited
> Nepal -- "close, very close, to Burma" -- I did not know that; thank
> you for that information -- "stupid" is freshly defined.
>
> If you want Burma to have the democratic future you have
> determined for it, then by all means go and do exactly as you do:
> disallow contrary views to yours; go along and do to anyone you
> disagree with what you accuse Slorc of doing to anyone it disagrees
> with. That way, you would get the informed and democratic Burma
> that you are comfortable with. Keep it up.
>
> As for me, I evaluate everything I get, especially what I read
> in this Burmanet, and decide for myself. If that makes me pro-Slorc,
> then so be it. I am also told, when I respond to some outrageous or
> unsupportable view, that I am wasting bandwidth; that I should
> confine these responses to private emails. But if you insist on
> making stupid statements openly, I respond openly: if you make it to
> me privately, I respond privately.
>
> A Japanese economic analyst writes a piece on Burma, as he is
> immediately branded as "pro-Slorc"; I throw some doubt on how some
> pro-democracy backers of Burma behave or refuse to accept your
> general assertions that Slorc members eat boiled babies for breakfast,
> and I become a "pro-Slorc crony" and a "pro-Slorc twit". I begin to
> get an idea of the democratic Burma you have in mind: "a Slorc-like
> Burma, which we control". Thank you for leaving that impression with
> me.i dont know who this guy is but i refuse to have any more conversations
with him and will not let any more postings go over the burmausernet
this is a signal to him and to all. No more contact to him from cd. Sorry
that it happened in the first place.