Political Dirty Tricks

Let me publicly let Jose Orlando Castro Gomes and the entire list understand
that I do not know anything about him and had no intention of slandering
him. When I received the e-mail with his name, and his e-mail address as the
sender, (which you can see below) I could only assume that it was sent by him. I have no way of
"checking" to see if it was authentic.

I also tried to make the political point that I was not personally concerned
about receiving such an e-mail. My concern was that agents of some
government or right-wing organization was trying to disrupt the list.  (In
the USA, we call this "dirty tricks".) I am pleased that Jose Orlando Castro
Gomes has come forward to explain that he did not send the e-mail in
question. This only FURTHER CONFIRMS my suspicion that some government or
right-wing organization has tried to disrupt the list. Perhaps it is someone
who has stolen Jose Orlando Castro Gomes' password and is using his account.

In any case, it seems that Mr. Gomes was a victim of these political "dirty
tricks" and not the cause. I will send him a copy of the e-mail I received
and perhaps he can find out who is sending out e-mails from his address.

But I stand by my original comment that
on another list, someone sent out sexually explicit e-mails in an attempt to
smear some list members, and that we who are critics of
capitalism/imperialism should never be complacent because "the powers that
be" are capable of attacking us, even those who believe they are protected
by Ivy Towers.

Alan Spector

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Orlando Castro Gomes" <jose_orlando_gomes@hotmail.com>
To: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: notes on one-posting-day


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Like Mr. Bolles I'd like to manifest myself against this ridiculous rule
of
> the one-posting-a-day.

 

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Original message sent to Alan Spector

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Orlando da Silva Castro Gomes" <jose_orlando_gomes@hotmail.com>
To: <spectors@netnitco.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Sabotage ??


> Dear Colleague,
>
> Please forget the word sabotage. So hard for such a gentle man like you...(rest of explicit message deleted; not necessary to include here...)

 

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