Re: OfB.biz: It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux

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On Monday May 05, 2003 01:41, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > On Sunday 4 May 2003 4:56 am, Pupeno wrote:
> > > On Saturday 03 May 2003 19:13, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > > > If you really want to draw a parallel between SCO lawsuits and
> > > > warfare, then may I suggest 'economic invasion', or, as you may
> > > > prefer, 'war on terrorism*'.
> > > >
> > > > * This is called irony.
> > >
> > > I think all of them can be used thanks to the common denominator:
> > > lack of sense.
> >
> > True, but this use of 'Jihad' that seems to be continuously cropping
> > up in the media seems to me to imply an underlying message along the
> > lines of 'yea, those muslim bastards are responsible for this one too.
> > carpet bomb the lot of em, i say'. Perhaps I'm just paranoid (and I'm
> > sure this wasn't Tim's intention, more than likely he's simply
> > following the trend), but it's this that causes me to be concerned
> > about it.
>
> Sort of like "bin Laden" was blended into "Iraq", now "terrorist" is
> being blended into "Muslim".  It's even worse what comes out of
> Hollywood - but I guess we can be pretty sure it is not Muslims that
> control the content of Hollywood propaganda ;-).

Or how about how Maureen Dowd and her buddies at the New York Times used to 
talk about the "Taleban wing of the Republican party" and now suddenly 
it's the "Fedayeen wing of the Republican party."

I guess people of many political stances fall into traps of using fad 
words.

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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