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To: LindyBill who wrote (213463)	7/26/2007 1:48:05 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794221

It was designed for someone who thinks like you. lindybill@gullible.com It was, indeed, but not the way you think. I don't really care if he playing a violin or has some other motive. You're all concerned about his motive as though it were not possible to read an essay without falling for the message that the alleged motive is pushing, hook, line, and sinker. Sure, motive is important to the extent that opinions expressed will have spin based on motive. But useful information can come from a source that is trying to influence you. You just have to be smart enough and objective enough and willing to differentiate between the info and the spin. Apparently you don't consider that feasible. You may be correct in that the great unwashed can't differentiate and there's a risk in putting the info in front of them, but the alternative is to publish to the least common denominator, which also has risk for a free people. I found some good info in the essay. I learned, for example, that jihad is to flowers as qital is to weeds. I didn't know that. If I ever get into another discussion like the one about about "martyr," I will be armed with that information. I find value in that. Unlike you, I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. As for gullibility, I spot checked the info presented. The flowers and weeds really are as presented. <g>