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firebirdy writes "The Firebird Project is pleased to announce that the v1.5 release of the Firebird database engine is now available for immediate download. The v1.5 release represents a major upgrade to the engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the InterBase(tm) source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July 2000. Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early in Firebird 1 development, with the porting of the Firebird 1 C code to C++ and the first major code-cleaning. Firebird 1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase. Install packages are currently only available for Windows and Linux but other platforms should follow shortly." This product is not to be confused with newly renamed Firefox web browser, which was also called Firebird for some time.
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JOHN Kerry arrives in New York today. Our city is an old stomping ground of his, of course. He used to hang out at 156 Fifth Avenue - the headquarters of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Kerry was present at those offices in September 1970, when the group decided to write then-Mayor John V. Lindsay and demand that the city refuse to welcome another organization, one dedicated to representing other American servicemen.
The group John Kerry and his associates were protesting was The National Guard Association, which had its 1970 convention in New York at the Americana Hotel (now the New York Sheraton) from Sept. 13 to Sept. 17. Kerry's group set up a picket line in front of the Americana, and staged a protest rally against the Guard on Sept. 17, 1970 at 5:30 pm.
Why would they do such a thing? Here's the sort of rhetoric Kerry and Co. used to gather anti-war forces in a mimeographed flyer:
"The National Guard Uses Your Tax Dollar:
"To support the military-industrial complex
"To honor war criminals - Westmoreland, Laird, Nixon, etc.
"To applaud campus murders by National Guard units
"To encourage armed attacks on minority communities"
The decision to stage this defamatory protest against the National Guard - which then comprised 409,412 Army Guard and 89,847 Air Guard personnel - was made in John Kerry's presence and with his full knowledge. Executive-committee minutes for Vietnam Veterans Against the War note that among the six "members attending" a meeting to plan the protest was "John Kerry-NE Rep."
Now, Kerry and others will tell you that Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a group dedicated to advancing the interests of American servicemen - protecting them, bringing them home, helping them. The group's protest against the National Guard Association demonstrates that this claim is revisionist history with a vengeance.
Four months before the National Guard protest in New York, 100 Ohio Guardsmen confronted 1,500 rioting students at Kent State University who pelted them with rocks and bottles. Mistakenly believing that they were coming under gunfire, 30 Guardsmen fired into the crowd, killing 4 and wounding 9.
The Kent State killings were horrifying tragedies, and the anti-war movement portrayed them as deliberate acts of murder. They weren't. But even if you think that those 30 Guardsmen in Ohio had been guilty of a terrible crime, the fact remains that they were only 30 Guardsmen out of 500,000 nationwide.
Despite that fact, John Kerry and his organization thought that it was acceptable and desirable to tar the reputations of 500,000 American servicemen by assigning collective guilt to the "campus murders" the flyer decries.
And what about the flyer's accusation that the National Guard staged "armed attacks on minority communities"? Across the country in 1968, the Guard were called up to protect businesses and individuals from rampaging rioters. The rioters who burned down whole neighborhoods and laid minority communities to waste in Washington, Detroit, Newark and other cities.
The only thing that saved those cities from mass anarchy were young National Guardsmen, called up to protect innocent citizens from violent criminals. And yet John Kerry's group thought it was OK to say the entire National Guard perpetrated "armed attacks in minority communities."
But then Kerry was throwing around a lot of collective-guilt accusations in those days. He went before the Senate and accused his fellow American soldiers in Vietnam of "crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." He compared American conduct in Vietnam to the behavior of Genghis Khan, and said American forces "generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war."
But according to Kerry, these American war criminals weren't the truly responsible parties. Kerry made a speech in April 1971 in front of the New York Stock Exchange in which he ref
An informative post. Pity you made it as an AC!