Re: A Challenge for True Justice

[Kurt Cagle <kurt@kurtcagle.net>]

Would someone mind reposting the time and numbers for the conference call?

-- Kurt
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From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com>;
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Cc: <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:09 AM
Subject: RE: A Challenge for True Justice


> 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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