Re: german harps etc

[John Dixon <jwdixon_sbis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty please, you're right.  We're a great country, we've never
done anything wrong, we have the best of everything right here in
the states.  Now please take it off list of drop it.  Please,
please.....
- --- "Anthony P. Costine" <acostine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Anthony,
> 
> I really wish we could let this drop now.  There IS another point
> of 
> view beside yours regarding the politics of the latest overseas 
> exploits of the USA, and my country too, the UK, whether you find
> that 
> palatable or not - but at any rate this kind of stuff, whether 
> emanating from people you disagree with or from you yourself,
> simply 
> has no place on this list.  I have always, with very few
> exceptions, 
> found harp-l to be a positive and upbeat place to air views about
> all 
> things harmonica, and I hate to see it being degraded in this
> way.  I 
> have written to owner harp-l to express this view and to express
> the 
> wish that this kind of angle applied to harp-l discussion should
> be 
> nipped in the bud.
> 
> Steve Shaw.
> 
> 
> Hey Steve, just to kind of set the record straight, I did let it
> drop. 
> Did you write to what's his name and tell  him that he
> shouldn't've 
> dredged up a week old topic that generated bad feelings, and was
> very 
> offensive to more than a few people here? Yes, there is another
> point 
> of view. I certainly acknowledge that. What I don't acknowledge
> is this 
> whole idea that these other people can say things that are out of
> line 
> or over the top and then when someone is offended by it and
> responds 
> (as I did), suddenly the responder is the bad guy who needs to be
> 
> censored. If I need to be censored on this topic (and I'm sure I 
> do...it's a deeply ingrained thing and the way things are going
> in the 
> world right now I think that someone--indeed lots of
> someones--needs to 
> stand up and remind the world just how good the USA is. I find it
> kind 
> of offensive that I've gotten lots of private "atta boy" notes
> from 
> people who apparently don't want to find themselves getting
> publicly 
> ripped by you.
> Further, for harp content: I challenge anyone to tell me what
> great 
> blues harp player came out of Iraq under Saddam, or North Korea,
> or 
> wherever.
> And, special note to the Listowner, who I have all the respect in
> the 
> world for: I'm sick and tired of this whole bunch of garbage. If
> you 
> want me to stop defending myself, you need to establish that this
> whole 
> topic is off-limits. Because I'm not going to let this stuff pass
> 
> anymore at all. If you feel you need to unsubscribe me from the
> list 
> because I refuse to lay down and let people like this walk all
> over me, 
> that's more than fair and fine with me.
> But I'm not going to stop defending my country against...well,
> against 
> other people who seem to be jealous or just misinformed.
> 
> 
> From: "Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon May 24, 2004  7:34:03 PM US/Eastern
> To: acostine@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: german harps etc
> 
> Anthony,
> 
> I really wish we could let this drop now.  There IS another point
> of 
> view beside yours regarding the politics of the latest overseas 
> exploits of the USA, and my country too, the UK, whether you find
> that 
> palatable or not - but at any rate this kind of stuff, whether 
> emanating from people you disagree with or from you yourself,
> simply 
> has no place on this list.  I have always, with very few
> exceptions, 
> found harp-l to be a positive and upbeat place to air views about
> all 
> things harmonica, and I hate to see it being degraded in this
> way.  I 
> have written to owner harp-l to express this view and to express
> the 
> wish that this kind of angle applied to harp-l discussion should
> be 
> nipped in the bud.
> 
> Steve Shaw.
> 
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