From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:26:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ... subversive leftists
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At 4:57 PM 9/9/96, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <Pine.LNX.3.94.960909125148.16761A-100000@blau.pin.de>, on 09/09/96 at
>12:53 PM,
>   Stephan Schmidt <schmidt@pin.de> said:
>
>
>>I hope this one was ironic.
>
>>> The Democratic People's German Reich is fully justified in cutting off
>>> contacts with subversive radical publications in Jew-dominated nations like
>>> Holland.
>>>
>>> As Reichskommander Schmidt points out: "The citizen-units who access
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>But this one is tasteless and insulting even if it was
>>meant ironic.
>
>If the boot fits.......
>

I don't know why Stephan waited so many days to make his comment. It was my
noticing that I had "collided" with his name, Schmidt, when I made my
facetious post that caused me to almost immediately issue a clarification
that I was not thinking of him when I made my first post.

To be clear, again, I was not basing my "Reichskommander Schmidt" line on
Stephan Schmidt. That was just a coincidence.

As to the "Reichskommander," in our country, and on the Net, such jokes are
not illegal. I rather suspect they are in Germany, either the DDR or the
Western side.

As to "tasteless and insulting," a matter of personal perspective. I find
it helpful to call a spade a spade, and others apparently do as well.

--Tim May

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