I have a vivid image in my mind: Chief Albert Luthuli, banned from
speaking in public, banned from publishing, restricted to a 15-mile
radius of his home village (in KwaZulu-Natal) until the day he died
(except for a few days in Stockholm, to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize).
Vivid, because I met him during the year he was able to visit the US,
four years before he became president of the ANC and was subjected to
the wrath of the Apartheid regime; and vivid because (a couple of days
before the International Neuropsychology Society meeting, in Durban), I
was able to visit his home village and deliver three photos I had taken
of him so many years before.
Gallileo is a name in a book to me, but Luthuli is more than that, and
I find Mr. Colins' claiming a comparable restriction shameful.
I believe Mr. Collin's "house arrest" is of his own making: he lacks
the courage and intellectual honesty to step out of his "safe house"
and do what is necessary to present his ideas to his "peers" (joke) in
a way that allows serious consideration and criticism. You will notice
that Mr. Collins ALWAYS has some excuse as to why our criticisms "don't
count"--we are not meeting him FACE TO FACE, we are not DEVOTING a FULL
PLENARY SESSION of the Society for Neuroscience to his exposition of
his earth-shaking ideas, we are not reading THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF "AoK"
or whatever before commenting on the obvious sttupid errors in the
small parts we have seen. And sometimes someone or something plays
tricks with his computer.
Shameful, cowardly, dishonest. "House arrest"? No, "arrested
development".
F. LeFever
In <37965780.571CEAD3 at goober.net> Ace Ventura <aceventura at goober.net>
writes:
>>Ken Collins wrote:
>>>> Bruce Lilly wrote in message <3796003E.B4DF62B7 at erols.com>...
>>>> >[...]
>>>> >Well it could hardly be of any consolation (not to mention
reparation) to
>> >Galileo, who was tortured by the Inquisitioners.
>>>> "torture'? ...Gallileo was 'only' subjected to a form of 'house
arrest'...
>> i've been subjected to the 'same' [in its 'technologically-modern'
form] for
>> at least the last 20 years, and i was not able to even publish my
work
>> before being so 'arrested'.
>>Galileo was threatened with death, and not allowed to leave his home
until
>the day he died. You're comparing this to...what?
>><snip>
>
