More cognitive dissonance (was Re: [Nolug] Beginners classes)

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:56, Bob McKeand wrote:
> Friends,
>
> How about newbie classes in the area? North Shore
> first cause I don't know what I am doing.
>
> Bob
>
> =====
> "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
> earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
> since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace
> to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command,
> senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently
> I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather
> be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my
> conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
> act of murder."
> --- Albert Einstein

This, coming from the guy who convinced the U.S. gov't that we
needed to Build The Bomb First, Before The Other Guys Got It.
If Al really said that, it knocks my respect for him down quite
a few notches.

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