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The postings to uk.misc newsgroup generated. a very defensive reaction from
Usenet readers in the UK.. So much so, that they tried strenuously to
suppress what was being said, both. by breaking the rules of netiquette in
their responses on the forum, and directly. by action to revoke the account
from which the postings. were issued.

Yet the postings were within the normal. boundaries of behaviour for
uk.misc, and other less partisan spectators did not. see justice in the
censorship which was effected, as the following. excerpt shows;

:Karen Lofstrom. (***@lava.net) wrote
:>It does seem that the frequency and the size. of his posts are
:>approaching. net abuse. However, IMHO, they aren't quite there yet. If
:>his postmaster were to act. in this instance, it would raise troubling
:>censorship. issues.

The inescapable conclusion of the censorship effected on. the uk.*
newsgroups is that the British are intent on. their wrongdoing remaining
concealed, and therefore. seek to subvert and suppress freedom of speech,
not only in their own country where the media shows xenophobic bias. and
bile against all perceived enemies within and without,. but also in other
countries which have their own statutes to guarantee the. basic human right
of. free speech.

It is absolutely necessary to bring their hate campaign out into the. open
where it can be placed under scrutiny and the. harassers seen for what they
are. That is the only way of. making it impossible for the security services
to carry it out. There is a wider dimension, though. Xenophobia. as
demonstrated by British people and institutions. over the last few years
belongs to the. same stable as racial hatred. In one case, two youths on a
Tube train. made that racism explicit by referring to their victim as a
"soft. toy, not up to British Standards". Doubtless others victimize partly
on the basis of race (isn’t it odd that they. chose to torment someone who
is not ethnically. English?) while expressing their abuse in terms of
another. genetic attribute, namely mental illness. All xenophobia on a
genetic basis is wrong, but while racial insults are illegal, abusing. the
mentally ill is neither against the law nor subject to similar. condemnation
when it is. exposed.

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and religious affairs, till the late lamentable
Springfield contention. [The Springfield Contention relates to the
settlement of a minister there, which occasioned too warm debates
between some, both pastors and people, that were for it, and others that
were against it, on account of their different apprehensions about his
principles, and about some steps that were taken to procure his
ordination.]

Being much separated from other parts of the province and having
comparatively but little intercourse with them, we have always managed
our ecclesiastical affairs within ourselves. It is the way in which the
country, from its infancy, has gone on, by the practical agreement of
all; and the way in which our peace and good order has hitherto been
maintained.

The town of Northampton is of about 82 years standing, and has now about
200 families; which mostly dwell more compactly together than any town
of such a size in these parts of the country. This probably has been an
occasion, that both our corruptions and reformations have been, from
time to time, the more swiftly propagated from one to another th