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Posted by COMF [COMF] on October 27, 1999 at 04:22:10 {dPkPwxsNJELQHH2bLg9woRa3VCcycQ}:

In Reply to: *****4 GB member posted by Snowball on October 26, 1999 at 22:07:54:

Would you have wanted Ray Franz or Ed Dunlap to be lynched?

I don't know who Ed Dunlap is/was. As for Ray Franz, I have never joined the ooing crowds who choose to see him as a God-guided visionary leading the way to freedom from Egypt's chains. What's the difference? He was inspired by God when he was a GB... no, wait, I mean he's inspired now that he's not a GB! Pffft. He's a human being. That's all.

I don't know Ray Franz. I have nothing against him personally. However, the fact that it was he who authored the classic textbook study in bold-faced hypocrisy after 1975, blaming the rank and file for building their own personal expectations and reading things into 1975 that the society never meant them to read, has kept me from seeing the soft-white glowing halo above his head that others perceive so clearly.

Ray may be a good man. I've no doubt he is. But many good men have stooped to falsehood and deceit and slander (which is what Ray's missive on who was to blame was... slander, pure and simple) if they thought their motives were pure enough. Hitler had a wonderful vision of a golden society, The Third Reich! Mankind's glorious progression from decay to perfection! Noble goals indeed. It was the implementation that got him his reputation.

I believe that the guilty must pay for their crimes. Repentance is good; and I can separate the person from the act and hate the act while not hating the person. But he still must pay for his crimes. We may laugh and joke while walking the last mile; I may be the one who cooks his last steak, and lights his last cigarette; I may hold him and pat him on the back as he screams and cries bitter tears, Esau-like, over what he has lost because of his disregard of justice, truth and integrity, and may tell him that it's okay now, all is forgiven; but when that is over, he still will pay the price for his crimes.

COMF

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