Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:07 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Rob Schneider-Laura Tully wrote: >Of course you can infer as you choose from my snide remark, but my >point was to mock the implicit tone of the new Leica brochure, not >impugn the good reputation of any photojournalist who may use a Leica >M Okay, Rob, I'll take you at your word. Your wording just hit me wrong, and I was about to go out the door to work, so I didn't have time to think my phraseology out that well. Sorry if I offended you. >And other than their both being revolutionaries, Che Guevara compares >to Pol Pot in what way? Or in my youth did I just miss the coverage >of the killing fields of Oriente Province? Communist revolutionary. Taking away people rights. That kind of thing. I know it was an extreme comparison. Hyperbole to make a point. But I do not find Che to be a person worth honoring for any reason. (Yeah, I know about the U.S. and it's shenanigans in the Americas, it's no excuse for perpetrating another kind of oppression). Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kim Hubbard