Re-Laird

[Mary Jane Ford]

I vote to put him back on.  I sponsored him, and he's a friend with a lot of
interesting stuff to say.  If anybody doesn't appreciate it, you can ignore
him, or push the delete button.   Remember he had agreed to stop sending so
much long, cloggy material.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Baldauf <jfbaldauf@prodigy.net>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:33 PM
Subject: Re-Laird


> Who is, after all,  ... "one of us?" One who dares to cite FBI
> misdeeds, or one who calls such information "blathering?" One
> wonders who "is" and who "once was" one of us; the FBI, after
> all, once kept track of "us." And continued to do so, in the case of
> some of "us," throughout the seventies, eighties, nineties and, I'm
> sure, up to the present time. (It's always easier to keep track of
> a Roger Baker or a Jim Baldauf than a Robert Hansen or an
> Osama bin laden.) It turns out, incidently, that Hansen, the FBI
> Traitor, was keeping track of U.S. "radicals" for the Reagan crowd
> and actually had a file on Sissy Farenthold, among others. I'm with
> Fontaine who thinks Laird's posts not "all that extreme", and vote
> to Re-List him as a kindred spirit. (The enemy of my enemy...)
>
> I like Bob's earlier post regarding Laird (with the Grand Prize & joint!)
> in which he seems to counsel Mike on tolerance:
>
> >Jeezus Mike...what a door greeter you are!  Hey come on in...the water is
> fine. Hey, not so fast pinkboy! Leave the soapbox outside.
>
> Isn't this is a forum where we can all yak our heads off, and it makes us
> feel better than just keeping it pent up in our musty heads?
>
> Just give this guy a Grand Prize beer and a joint and sit him in the
corner
> to mutter with Roger and Ewee.
>
> After all...this IS the Ghetto.
>
> Isn't it?
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> tele<
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fontaine Maverick <fontainetx@earthlink.net>
> To: ghetto <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:30 PM
> Subject: de-laird
>
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> > Don Laird's postings did not seem to me all that extreme. I would have
> > preferred he stay, but not if it had cost us BS. I do have a problem
> > with Mike unilaterally taking him off the list. We have others on the
> > list who are not Ghetto-ites in the strictest sense of the word, so the
> > "he is not one of us" rule doesn't float.
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