From: "Eugene Austin" eaustin@ncfcomm.com
Subject: withdrawl of offer to link and removal of links to you
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:05:29 -0600
Dear Mr McBastard:
I find myself with a problem.
Although I am a private citizen, I am "connected" to
Interpol, the United
Nations' "Sale of Children" project in Geneva, the
International Adoption
Convention agency in the Hague, Congress, a dozen or more State
Legislatures and Attorney Generals and numerous other private and
governmental child recovery agencies.
One of the most important reasons I have those
"connections," some of which
date back to 1963, is that under no conditions do I allow anyone,
friendly,
enemy or otherwise, to control either my editorial content or
source code.
In view of your ingransigent attitude towards my source code I
will, of
course, remove the two links as soon as possible, probably within
48 to 72
hours. I am most concerned by your inclusion of internal
"back" links,
which fuzzle up most Hispanic browsers. No, Mr McCarthy, Bill
Gates does
not own South or Central America. He has the status of poison ivy
at a
picnic in most of those countries, especially Brazil, where the
government
expropriated all U.S. owned communications systems, including
Internet and
WWW. I have to write source code that is compatible with IE,
Netscape,
UNIX and a whole passel of South American browsers. Internal
"Back" links
are just one problem.
Another big one is ISPs who store web pages on UNIX. That stuff
is
case-sensitive and firewalls cross-jumps unless they are done
exactly
right!
I suggest you look at your links. They do not cover South or
Central
America. I could only find the Abuelas, no sign of Red Yamani or
the
Drechos Humana adoption recovery site. Damsel Plumb and Shea
Grimm are
major causes of a massive Argentina-based Hispanic Internet
anti-adoption
movement that covers the entire Western Hemisphere, including the
U.S. and
Canada, and much of Europe and Asia. Some openly accuse them of
anti-Hispanic and anti-Semetic racism. This is because of your
links, not
reality. The biggest single contributor to lumping them in the
"Collosus
of the North" catagory is lack of a link to Interpol
Agentina. They don't
like that even slightly and Interpol ain't about to let you
control their
source code any more than I am! They want us to link to them but
are
prohibited by their governments from linking to any of us. They
are far
too valuable for me not to go along with them.
Another contributor is your lack of links to the Spanish-Language
Human
Rights pages, every one of which includes adoption recovery as a
part of
their activity, but is not limited to that subject. Most are
government
financed and supported, aimed at recovering children kidnaped in
those
countries and sold into U.S. adoption.
Those are people who have lost relatives to murder, assault and
children
kidnaped under U.S. State Department sponsorship (Peter Pfund).
State/CIA
teach murder, kidnaping and adoption child stealing to other
countries'
military personnel in School of the Americas. I must and will
respect
their views over yours. This is doubly true in light of CUB's
insistence on
recognition of the rights of birth parents to information about
their
children. I fully support them.
I am sure that you will do very well without me, despite your
divisive
effects on the anti-adoption movement. I am sure that I will do
equally
well with the anti-adoption movement, which is doing completely
away with
adoption at the source. It is financed and sponsored by the
Catholic
Church, Rand Institute, CityBank, Samsung and other genuine
powerhouses. I
am slightly concerned about the anti-CUB statement made on one of
your
pages. Live and let live. You are entitled to disseminate your
views, I
am entitled to push mine, Carangelo hers, etc.
Sorry about the inconvenience. It won't happen again. I'll run my
links,
you run yours.
FYI, I do not link to Terry's start page because he sells too
many other
kinds of material. That is why I use the full URL, taking the
searcher
direct to that section instead of going through tons of what is,
to
adoption oriented people, garbage. Check out hyperbooks.com and
you'll see
what I mean.
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