[TANGO-L] Mail rape

[Carlos Lima <amilsolrac @YAHOO.COM>]

Concerning the private mail to and from Horacio Brito illegitimately
publicised on this list ...

I happen to know pretty well, or so I strongly believe, the person most
wronged, mostly by the villainous mail piracy perpetrated on this list---if
perhaps wronged not just by that. She is a wonderful young woman, and I will
have her know that nothing in those criminally publicized exchanges lessens
in the least my respect for her, and appreciation of her. I hope she gets the
same message from many others.

We may say, for the sake of argument, that she has made a mistake; one that
is far more common, it appears, than the vast majority of posters on this
list imagine. She at least suspected that all is not well in our tango
circles. Well, it is much better than she thought, not to mention what she
may think now. As this incident exemplifies, the narrow margin of badness has
been widening. I think I know why, but I will omit the gory detail.

While agreeing with the concerns and suggestions advanced by my friend Sarah
La Rocca in her posting of yesterday, I decline to judge Horacio upon the
available information. If this were a court of law, he would be presumed
innocent. Besides, this may or may not be a matter actually or figuratively
appropriate for a judgment of such kind, or for further punishment.

Thus far there is only one true villain, and that is the person who posted
the private correspondence. S/he may escape all due censure. Other punishment
may have been deserved to one extent or another, even if the only "crime" was
carelessness.

That leaves us with my young friend. She has had aspects of her private life
outrageously exposed by another person, against her will, while doing no
wrong whatsoever herself. Only a top caliber cra'pula would be so low as not
to care about this, regardless of the exact nature of the motivation to
assault Horacio and his mail partners. (Hard to believe that it could be
anything but extremely petty.)

Maybe the principle of inviolability of personal correspondence was not some
odd or arbitrary "liberal" invention after all, or a means to protect the
guilty. (And we have not even got yet to the idea of allowing the holders of
power to dip into our private exchanges so they can better "protect" us.)

Looking forward to better days,



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