Ineke Schwartz on Fri, 28 May 1999 14:33:11 +0200 (CEST)


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

nettime-nl: [Fwd: vote] 




Dear friend,
> 
> the Time magazine is organizing an e-mail election in order to find the
> "man of the century" and Hitler is in front! I don't know how you think
> about it, but I don't want to see his face on the cover of this year's
> december edition of the Time magazine. I don't think that someone who
> is responsible for the death of millions and someone who taught hatred
> in such an unbelievable way should be called the "man of the century".
> For me personally there are others like Martin Luther King or Nelson
> Mandela who deserve this name more than Hitler. Neonazi groups from all
> over the world call their members to vote via e-mail for Hitler and now
> I want to do the same, but the other way round.
> 
> It is on you if you want to follow my call for voting against Hitlera
> and it is also up to you if you want to spread this e-mail or not. It
> won't cost you anything and takes just a little time to do. At the end
> of April Hitler lead with nearly 200.000 votes. Please vote gainst him
> under:
> 
> http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html
> Thank you in advance and forward this message to as much people as you
> can.
> 
> Take care, Eyal.
> 
> P.S. Here are the top 20 so far:
> #Person                         %        Tally
> 1 Elvis Presley               24.96    298614
> 2 Adolf Hitler                19.65    235070
> 3 Pope John Paul II           12.57    150352
> 4 Martin Luther King          10.92    130602
> 5 Mohandas Gandhi              9.13    109233
> 6 Yitzchak Rabin               4.80     57515
> 7 Ronald Reagan                2.99     35831
> 8 Albert Einstein              1.98     23719
> 9 Winston Churchill            1.96     23476
> 10 Mother Teresa               0.92     11003
> 11 Madonna                     0.89     10699
> 12 Bill Gates                  0.63      7637
> 13 Murray N. Rothbard          0.61      7371
> 14 Franklin D. Roosevelt       0.57      6845
> 15 John Lennon                 0.49      5928
> 16 Princess Diana              0.36      4395
> 17 Nelson Mandela              0.36      4379
> 18 Milton Friedman             0.33      4038
> 19 Jesus Christ                0.29      3509
> 20 Michael Jackson             0.23      2759
> 
> 
> ===
> "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
> 	and won't change the subject."
> 
> 				(Churchill)
>