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- Subject: Libero/consevatives DO oppose First Amendment rights ?
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:19:00 GMT
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- >>Perhaps you can point out a few opposing examples for us?
- >
- > I would be happy to. A few weeks ago, some femists here at Iowa State
- >started really pushing the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa
- >Constitution. They put signs up EVERYWHERE pushing the admendment and
- >advertizing rallies by true feminazis like Eleanor Smeal. Many of the
- >signs were outright male-bashing, such as the ones that headlined
- >"WE REMEMBER ANITA HILL!!!!"
- >
-
- Please explain how the sign you cited is male bashing.
-
- >
- > I eventually decided to put up some signs of my own. I had received
- >an 11"x17" flyer in the mail from a group opposing the Iowa ERA. I
- >had the flyer reduced to 8.5"x14", and started posting copies around the
- >campus. It did not take long for me to notice that my signs would
- >disappear not longer after I'd post them. Neither I nor anybody else
- >touched any of the signs posted by the feminists, but my signs were
- >very rapidly torn down.
- >
- > On one occasion, I was walking with a friend through the campus, and
- >talking to him about the incident with my signs. We came to a building
- >where I'd posted several, and miraculously enough some were still
- >there. We left briefly, came back five minutes later, and sure enough
- >they were gone. As I was pointing out the disappearance of the signs,
- >the girl who tore them down suddenly appeared.
- >
- > My experiences with my anti-ERA signs were by no means unique. I
- >was told by a friend who is involved with the local Campus Crusade
- >for Christ that they have a terrible time keeping signs up. The signs
- >they post are threatening to absolutely nobody, yet they often have to
- >repost the same sign several times because it will get repeatedly
- >torn down.
- >
- > All of this leads me to the solid conclusion that conservatives
- >are the real guarantors of First Amendment Rights in the U.S. Liberals
- >support other people's First Amendment rights only when the speach
- >agrees with them. Liberals have concocted a large number of terms
- >like "political correctness" in attempt to stifle the First Amendment
- >rights of people with opposing viewpoints. Political incorrectness
- >**IS** fully protected by the First Amendment, but liberals refuse to
- >accept this. Conservatives, however, always respect the First Amendment
- >rights of everybody, regardless of opposing viewpoints.
- >
- > Liberals are no more the guarantors of the First Amendment than
- >totalitarians are the guarantors of personal freedoms.
- >
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
- >
-
-
- I live and work on a primarily conservative campus. Everything
- you cited above goes on here too, only here its the conservatives
- doing it to the liberals. The era signs dont last 5 minutes and
- the religious/conservative signs have been known to evoke threats
- if they are touched. If you will not confuse the entirety of liberalism
- with the small sample to which you are exposed, I will try not to
- do the same with conservatives.
-