Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUGers Now some real good news! I saw last night that Frank Dernie is back on the Formula One scene. He is with that Frog outfit Peugeot, but they still have British connections. The commentators referred to him with high regard. I still wonder how he has time to write to us between Qualification time and the race/ Jerry FRANK DERNIE wrote: > Hi Fred, > I have to jump to Nathan's defence here, even if his subject line is a bit > extreme. The world -has- changed with the death of this purveyor of > extreme views and the politics of hate and exclusion. Inertia is such that > the change will be slow, but the loss of one influential bigot is a good > thing for the future of the world. > Sadly there are still rather a lot of them left, and as long as there are > ignorant/deliberately ill-educated people about that this sort of person > can influence, we are all vulnerable. > The most dangerous thing in the world is ignorance, it leaves the way free > to whip up political and religious extremism. > He may be a product of his upbringing and education, all that means is > that he has a bad upbringing. > IMHO of course. > Frank > > > -