> I'm sure Alison is capable of speaking for herself.
>
I'm sure she is, too, Candice. That's why I quoted her comment as you seemed
to not recall her making it. Just trying to be helpful.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Happy New Year/ Oz burns
> What fire?
>
> I'm sure Alison is capable of speaking for herself.
>
> That's all, Dave, thanks--
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> on 1/4/02 12:38 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>
> > Candice, this fire's been burning too long.
> >
> > You say to Alison:
> >
> >> I don't recall your complaining of "arson-terrorism" as
"inappropriate,"
> >
> > Her first response to your introduction of the term 'arson-terrorism'
> > included:
> >
> >> "Arson-terrorism" seems an inaccurate term to me; arson will do.
> >
> >
> > That's all.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > David Bircumshaw
> >
> > Leicester, England
> >
> > Home Page
> >
> > A Chide's Alphabet
> >
> > Painting Without Numbers
> >
> > www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
> >
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: Happy New Year/ Oz burns
> >
> >
> >> on 1/3/02 5:14 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >>
> >>> Extraordinary, Candice - this sort of fear-inflation by buzz words,
> >>> and the consequent cripppling of thinking and critique, is just what
> >>> I was objecting to when I complained that "arson-terrorism" was
> >>> inappropriate.
> >>
> >> I think you must have misunderstood Chris's post, Alison--surely he was
> >> objecting to government-manipulated "fear-inflation by buzz words, and
the
> >> consequent crippling of thinking and critique," by the media(?).
> >>
> >> I don't recall your complaining of "arson-terrorism" as
"inappropriate,"
> >> although, going by Chris's report, you'd apparently be right to do so
> > where
> >> these fires are concerned. What I heard you saying was that "terrorism"
is
> > a
> >> "non-word," which it most certainly is not, and I remain baffled by
your
> >> wish to deny its usage, even its existence perhaps, in the face of
> >> overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There is every reason to
advocate
> > for
> >> clearer definition of "terrorism," though, which classifying it by type
> >> (arson-, say, or media-) might do, if not exclusively of course. This
is
> >> just one possible means of clarification among others, the point being
the
> >> need to define the term more specifically and thereby more usefully.
> >>
> >> Candice
>
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