Time: Wed Nov 13 20:58:56 1996
To: roc@xmission.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: another NWOW!
Cc: 
Bcc: 

This "bill" is refused for cause, 
without dishonor.  I stand on the
First Amendment, as an author,
a Citizen, and a Counselor at Law.
The question of rail cars to be
used for shuttling people to 
detention centers, is a worthy
hypothesis, but that is all it
is right now -- an hypothesis -- 
no better or worse than E = M x C x C.
Until someone can produce competent
evidence to reject this hypothesis,
it shall stand unrebutted and 
unrejected.  If it is indeed a
red herring, the evidence will 
demonstrate that.  I daresay that
there is quite a lot of material
which appears on the Internet which
has not been confirmed by eyewitness
experience.  The absence of such
eyewitness testimony is not sufficient
ground to derail the First Amendment.
Applying your test, no one would be
"permitted" even to mention the Gulf
War Syndrome until and unless they
had received the anthrax innoculation
themselves, and fallen into convulsions.
Reductio ad absurdem.  

I rest, for now.


/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 04:58 PM 11/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:
>
>> I agree entirely.  I am just 
>> resisting the idea, all too
>> frequent these days, that I
>> do the research at my own 
>> expense.  I have better things
>> to do with my professional time,
>> believe me (and I hope you will).
>
>I am sure you would grant us the courtesy of recognizing that many of us
>consider our time at least as valuable as yours?
>
>Using your own figures, and estimating that there are a thousand people
>on this list who took on average about 30 seconds apiece to evaluate
>your epistle cast to the winds without verifying the facts behind it, 
>and then redirect it to the bit bucket, that works out to be 8.33+ hours at
>$75/hr = $625.
>
>Consider yourself billed, and tender a check to the list-owner to help
>defray the expenses he incurs by providing and maintaining this list at
>no charge.  Of course, any donation in excess of that I am sure would
>be gratefully accepted.
>
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