[at-l] Wilderness "Mechanism"

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

Of course this is pure invention and manure. No one called you a Nazi, much 
less MacKaye one. You have indicated that you endorse dictatorship and 
authoritarian management of the AT for the few through*hikers, rather that 
the population as MacKaye had outlined. You accuse those who disagree with 
you of efforts to pave the planet, while ignoring their observations. By 
inventing such scarecrow non-issues, you can presume to call Jim and others 
on "AT*L" practitioners of "Nazi elitism".

You, sir, have called us Nazi. You, sir, have passed the point of decency 
and credibility. You, sir, have no issues for discussion or debate, only 
wild accusations and belligerence. I believe that we should invoke Godwin's 
Law (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html) and 
end further waste of bandwidth. Hence, I have invoked my mail programs to 
filter future RoksnRoots@Aol.com into my trash bin, unread.

OrangeBug


At 03:43 PM 7/3/2001 -0400, RoksnRoots@aol.com wrote:
>     ***   This leaves open the possibility that under the right set of
>"facts" you would consent to a Maine ridgeline drive. And this poster told me
>that I "just didn't get what the Trail was about"! Anybody who claims to
>possess any kind of Trail knowledge or involvement who would leave the Trail
>vulnerable to this kind of insult is the one who doesn't "get it". This same
>poster would turn and say "this gondola really destroyed Bigelow" upon
>reaching the summit. It is a false ethic of fairness that leaves the Trail
>hanging. This poster dares speak this way to the man who saved Bigelow
>through this particular brand of "Nazi elitism" so popular with AT*L.