----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin E. Ramsey <ramsey@extremezone.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Bowing out > I would just like to point out one thing to all the people on the list > who seem so bent on "making nice" to the Communist Regime in the PRC. If we > were in China, and belonged to this list in the time of the Cultural > Revolution, we would have been rounded up, shot in the back of the head, and > our parents would have received a bill for the cost of the bullet. > As one of our greatest Statesmen (Thomas Jefferson) once said, "The only > thing necessary for the triumph of Evil over Good, is for good men to do > nothing." > And on that note, I too am only too glad to leave this most unpleasant > topic behind. But, I refuse to go back to sleep! > Kevin E. Ramsey It would be interesting to know the source of the quote as many things alleged to be said by TJ were in fact not, or exaggerated by being out of context. Just like some of the "facts" you report of the cultural revolution. If you want to judge a society today on the acts of an "evil regime" 35 years ago that is your discretion. Such angst indeed might make it hard to sleep. Surely if the "bullet in the back of the head" mentality were driving that tank 12 years ago it would not have turned away, or even been slowed. Now tell us every regime you have ever supported has never done evil. "The 'good man' cleans his own house", is conveyed by the Jefferson quote. If indeed it is his, a ventured guess is it was made in regards to slavery---an evil Jefferson acknowledged he himself was caught up in. ..."A wolf by the ears". If he was a deist I doubt he believed in "Good over Evil" but that didn't prevent him from using such sentiment in persuasive argument. See the Declaration of Independence. ---ric
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