RE: A Challenge for True Justice

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

The best thing we can do is get on with the design 
of HumanML.   The rest is a distraction and defocusing. 
We now will have competing efforts such as the 
new OASIS topic maps effort with a charter very similar 
to the HumanML charter but focused on an explicit 
technology.

Everyone is concerned with world events, but what 
occurred last week is essentially a criminal act by 
a criminal group and best handled by police, investigative, 
military and diplomatic agencies.  Our job is to 
create a technical standard for human to computer 
to human communication.  Unless we can focus on 
this, we should disband and release resources to 
the technical groups with a technical focus.


Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:53 AM
To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
Subject: A Challenge for True Justice


Hi Folks,

I'm not sure how HumanMarkup might be involved since we are not in a 
position to offer much support or bring any part of our fledgling 
initiative to bear but...

A thought occurred to me as to just how we could actually turn the 
tables on Osama Bin Laden in particular and these kinds of Islamic 
Fundamentalist fanatics in general, since I believe it is the effects 
of materialistic Western culture in general which is really what 
drives their hate, both through jealousy of affluence, blame for 
economic isolation and the literal kidnapping of their youth as those 
young people imitate the trends and customs of Western Culture.

I know that is an over simplification, and that the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Saudi soveriegnty over the 
historical holy sites and the Iraqi sanctions all play a role in the 
alienation of those splinter groups and the popularity of their 
antics among the poor and oppressed in those third world countries, 
however what I suggest has a good chance of undermining that appeal 
at the same time that it directly antagonizes and brings the 
terrorists into the open where we can capture them and expose them 
for the ignorant despoilers they are.

If we were to mount a Peace Corps effort of large proportions to go 
into the countrysides of Afghanistan and Iraq, among the northern 
Afghanis who don't accept the Taliban in Afghanistan, and among the 
Kurds in Northern Iraq and the Sunni tribes in Southern Iraq, under 
the protection and with the support of local mullahs and with U.S. 
Marine guards and advance early deployment units with massive 
tactical support in close proximity, we could help remove the 
recruiting population from these groups in a way that is almost 
certain to bring terrorist saboteurs out to attack such efforts. Of 
course, these programs would have to continue after the threat has 
been eliminated and serve as a channel of direct communication into 
this part of the world in a way that is beneficial to all 
participants.

Brains Before Bombs,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
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Email: rexb@starbourne.com
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