[66] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
*the* Mike Rolish
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Fri Apr 20 00:24:33 2001
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To: Michael E Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:44:36 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:24:01 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Dear Mike,
Are you not the very Mike Rolish who spammed my club's
list (i.e. you were not a member, yet posted anyhow)
inviting people from our club to attend the event? I
guess it is ok to be disruptive and break "rules" when it
is for the furthering of your views...
You inform us that you are not a skin-head. That is
the first good news I have had all night.
What really amuses me is that I am not, never have been
and will not any time in the foreseeable future be
a communist. (And not just because discrimination against
communists is legal as per the civil rights act... so much for
freedom of speech and assembly, or thought, for that matter.)
Even more amusing is that you have absolutely no idea
on which grounds I disagree with your wonderful speaker because
no one else in the room was given a chance to complete a point
in counter to his assertions and myth-making. I don't mind
that the guy wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but I do mind
that he was indignant when even I had listened to a good twenty
minutes of his views, yet audience members had to follow strict time
limits in phrasing their questions. And of course "speech giving"
was tolerated when it was someone who seemed to agree with him,
it was just those that didn't that were berated and silenced.
It is true I didn't hear his whole talk. It is true I
put on my fuzzy helmet mask after he started characterizing ALL
environmentalists as "eco-terrorists." And a happy earth day to you,
too.
The thing that I don't understand is why you would invite us to
that poor excuse for a talk and expect us to silently be
proseletyzed to? I was not at all disruptive before the speaker
started berating questioners during the Q&A. If you wanted to restrict
it to the choir, why spam the Social Justice Cooperative announcement
list? Or has ROTC gotten you a little too comfortable with
fascism?
If your views can't hold up under even a modest amount of
scrutiny, you might want to look for some better ones
instead of silencing those who disagree.
And don't flatter yourself that you are my enemy. You
are merely the tool of my enemy...
What are you so damned afraid of? Your the one whose got a gun
and military training...
Aimee
> Ugh, look at the filth posted by this arch-enemy of
> freedom, Aimee Smith. BTW, I was the "skinhead looking
> guy," an officer in the club that sponsored the talk.
> Since she implied that I'm a "skinhead," I'll note that
> as a ROTC cadet, I have to keep my hair short. In
> truth, I am the defender of reason and freedom, and
> Ms. Smith is the proponent of racism, slavery, and
> death. (Some people are in denial about Communism,
> it seems).
>
> She showed up only for the end of the lecture, and was
> extremely rude during her time there. She obviously
> had no intent in listening to the lecture and was only
> there to lash out against her enemies.
>
> Now, as to hosting an event: as the MOC sponsored it,
> we have the right to ask you to leave if you are
> disruptive. Freedom is not the freedom to go into
> another man's house, violate his person and property,
> and shove your irrational viewpoints down his throat.
> If you have a problem with reason, freedom, and capitalism,
> then don't come to listen to a speaker espousing these
> views. Don't expect to get away with disrupting our
> event though - I will ask you to shut up or leave (try
> "firmly," not "in a threatening manner"). If that's
> fascism, then what the hell is the kind of government
> that people like Ms. Smith support called?
>
> But the worst part is, she's the advocate of enslaving
> us all under the kind of socialism that has ruined much
> of the world in recent history. Well I don't know about
> you all, but I'm not about to be enslaved by socialist
> brutes such as Ms. Smith. To hell with that.
>
> You seem far from rational, Ms. Smith - more like an
> emotional child who is bent on ruining the happiness of
> others. But your game is up...you pay the psychological
> price for it every day...and there are a few of us who
> know how deluded you and the rest of the left are. Don't
> expect us to stand by and let you bring doom upon us all.
>
> -Mike Rolish
>
> PS: Anyone knowledgeable about government knows how close
> socialism and fascism are. Anyone who's read Rand knows
> how her philosophy is the exact opposite of these. At
> least do your homework before making such idiotic
> comparisons.
>
