Jeff Thomas
New member
I think all of us in TFL are absolutely disgusted at the massacre in Littleton, CO today. My revulsion to that incident was made even more sickening when I saw that the Violence Policy Center was already making hay with this incident, barely after those poor children were cold. See www.vpc.org/press/9904col.htm .
A friend copied me on an email he wrote to these cynical fools at comment@vpc.org:
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Bill McGeveran
Violence Policy Center
Dear Mr. McGeveran,
The poor kids in Littleton, CO are hardly cold, and your organization is already cynically using them to further your political agenda. Shame on you. I wonder if organizations like yours almost rub your hands in glee at such a tragedy so that you can spread further distortions.
I've perused your web site before, and it appears that you deal in lies, distortion and deceit in order to win others to your perspective. Perhaps you might want to ask yourselves how additional laws would have stopped this episode. Many of the existing laws listed on your 'Fact Sheet' were probably already broken even before this sad affair began. But no, people like yourselves never want to use logic in policy matters. You just work by emotion, and you prey on the emotions of others.
Well, I certainly hope there is a special place in Hell for people like yourselves - well-meaning, but so naive that you'll put us all at risk for your own political ends. And willing to use these poor children for your political goals just a few minutes or hours after their deaths. Shame on you.
Sincerely,
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Intellectually, I should expect this kind of crap. In my heart I find it hard to forgive people like this for such dishonest "logic".
How sad.
[This message has been edited by Jeff Thomas (edited April 21, 1999).]
A friend copied me on an email he wrote to these cynical fools at comment@vpc.org:
_____________________________________________
Bill McGeveran
Violence Policy Center
Dear Mr. McGeveran,
The poor kids in Littleton, CO are hardly cold, and your organization is already cynically using them to further your political agenda. Shame on you. I wonder if organizations like yours almost rub your hands in glee at such a tragedy so that you can spread further distortions.
I've perused your web site before, and it appears that you deal in lies, distortion and deceit in order to win others to your perspective. Perhaps you might want to ask yourselves how additional laws would have stopped this episode. Many of the existing laws listed on your 'Fact Sheet' were probably already broken even before this sad affair began. But no, people like yourselves never want to use logic in policy matters. You just work by emotion, and you prey on the emotions of others.
Well, I certainly hope there is a special place in Hell for people like yourselves - well-meaning, but so naive that you'll put us all at risk for your own political ends. And willing to use these poor children for your political goals just a few minutes or hours after their deaths. Shame on you.
Sincerely,
_____________________________________________
Intellectually, I should expect this kind of crap. In my heart I find it hard to forgive people like this for such dishonest "logic".
How sad.
[This message has been edited by Jeff Thomas (edited April 21, 1999).]