--- "Dileep D. Monie" <dmonie at futurestat.com> wrote: > First, I am using Eudora 5.02 to view my email. > Occasionally (~1 in 15 > messages) the background of the digest is set to a > light blue. Just curious > as to why? > > As for the holocaust allegations, a book entitled > "IBM and the Holocaust: > The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and > America's Most Powerful > Corporation" was just released (ISBN: 0609607995). > It was on 20/20, CNN, > pretty much everywhere and is a bestseller on > Amazon.com. Although the > details and facts have yet to be verified (documents > are in various > university archives), it looks pretty damning. The > rant was just a thought. > > - Dileep > > > At 08:56 AM 3/11/01 -0600, you wrote: > > > > rants: Why does the occasional list digest have > a light blue background? > > > Should I feel bad about using IBM products in > light of the recent > > holocaust > > > allegations? > > > >Huh??? I think I missed something..... Re to the Re of the Rant... Concerning the matter of Big Blue and the Holocaust accusations... 1. It counts a lot if you are Jewish. 2. It counts even more if you are human and have a sense of morality. 3. The complicity of IBM in supplying the Nazi machine with such data tracking methodologies is equal to being a partner in the mass extermination of 18 million people... the thing that is overlooked is that they may have killed 6 million people of the Jewish people... but they also killed (by the same methods!) Russian, Polish, Ukranian, Czech, Spanish, and others (twelve million... think on that, all told, and this is found in the records of the holocaust gathered after the fact by Jewish, American, Russian and German sources!) My father-In-Law had a family tree record of all the members traced back to Russia and the Eastern European regions... going back to the early to mid 18th cent... When it gets to the generations of WWII... there are a flow of asterisks next to names... indicating extermination at the hand of the Nazis... Want to know why we dumped our 5000 shares of IBM and Perferred like a hot potato..??? We don't buy Braun or Krupp or McDonald's either..! The McDonalds thing is because they wanted to build on a site just outside the museum at Auschwitz!!! Please excuse my unloading like this, I am not personally, Jewish, my wife is... I just consider myself a human being, and to me the human being part takes precedence over the bottom line. But what I am so hurt about is not just IBM... it is Microsoft. They are working on projects with other companies (Cisco, Sun,...IBM) to incorporate biometrics... know what that is? You will see it soon enough. P.S. please excuse the inclusion of the the thread... I felt it necessary to complete the thought... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/