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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (67816)	11/25/2002 1:58:08 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"So let X attack Monica. Can't hurt her, she's dead. Can't hurt me, my love for Monica can't be affected or diminished." Your love runs pretty deep eh, unreal guy?? You must have an awfully big heart to fall that deeply for a "blip on the screen", eh??? You ignorant bastard...

To: The Philosopher who wrote (67816)	11/25/2002 11:50:56 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

But I don't think she would have been at all disturbed by X's posts...she really, truly, believed that people could say what they wanted to The assertion that she wouldn't have been disturbed by the things X said is wildly, even outrageously wrong, and either you didn't know Monica at all, or you know perfectly well it's bs and don't care, because it suits your agenda. Addtionally, being personally disturbed by vicious cracks about you and believing in the First Amendment have nothing to do with each other. I knew Monica a lot better than you did, CH. She would have been furious at X's posts. She would have been disgusted online, by PM, and on the phone. She would have defended herself, and done it well. Unfortunately, she can't, now, because she's dead. But you're here pretending she wouldn't "have been at all disturbed..." at X's post-mortem viciousness to her and her friends. That's... not nice, Christopher.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (67816)	11/25/2002 12:28:20 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

This is an area of strange insensitivity on your part. I went to the trouble of putting together a fund (I raised over $5000) to memorialize Monica at the Blue Heron Theater in NYC, getting a practice room named after her (she had been a board member of the theater, and was proud of it), and personally attended the ceremony of unveiling with my family. This was to give those us who cared about her a vehicle to properly show our esteem. A good deal of human life is made up of such rituals, in which we show, whether abstractly or concretely, what is important to us. It is not a matter of indifference to trash Monica in the immediate aftermath of her death. It is one of the reasons I have not been able to persuade some people to give X a break (in PMs), because of past nastiness culminating in her treatment of Monica at that time. I decided that transcending rancor was more important than holding the grudge, but I would not just blow it off now that it came up........