X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9dee868f9b986f2c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: frankp@eskimo.com (Frank Panion) Subject: Re: Please, leave seals alone in Canada Date: 1996/03/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 142444577 sender: news@eskimo.com (News User Id) x-nntp-posting-host: eskimo.com references: <825668307snz@antigrav.demon.co.uk> <4har5u$ru8@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4hh63p$r2p@ci.ist.utl.pt> organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever newsgroups: alt.ascii-art William Briesemaster (wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu) wrote: : On 5 Mar 1996, Seal do Mar wrote: : > When I started this thread I was just trying to make people aware of : > the situation. I did not claim I was completly right about it, and as this is : > an ascii art group I posted some ascii too. This one I believe: : : My intention was to enlighten also, but from the perspective of : the families that depend upon the fur trade for survival. There are damn : few McDonalds up above the arctic circle for those people to work at, and : the furs bring in alot more money. : > If you don't have any ascii to post this is not the right place to go : > any further on this subject. Wanna flame? Send it to my mail box, I may even : > try to answer those who are serious, but why the hell are we discussing : > indians, germans, WW2, and saying crap about each other that won't help a bit. : Well, the one of the damnedest things about freedom of speech is : that while yes, you can say just about any damn thing you like, somebody : might just dissagree with you. My original statement was to object to : the "let the killing times be done" or however it was worded. If you : post statements and oppinions, then expect them back. Plain and simple. : Besides, who are you to tell me where I can or cannot post? Well who the hell do you think you are??? I say kill all them stupid seals ....And I also say every time someone puts something in this fourm that is not ascii related we fill there mailbox full of junk What does everyone think about this??? : > If you want ascii art don't do this often or people who hangs around : > for it will start to stay away and all the great asciis will start to be away : > with them ... : There must be a happy medium. We can still continue the : discussion and get great art (I will say that the picture was DAMN GOOD, : its just the statement I had a problem with). Otherwise, either form of : enlightenment is useless without the other. What good is it really to be : artisticly talented with out being able to appreciate discussion about : the subject of the art, like-wise what good is it to be able to talk : about a subject and be blind to the beauty such conversations inspire? : William Briesemaster wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- : "There are no self-proclaimed villians, only regiments of self : proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good and evil lie" : -Glen Cook "The Black Company"