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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
- Message-ID: <BzMGur.2BM@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:32:49 GMT
- References: <visser.724451724@convex.convex.com> <a_rubin.724456483@dn66> <BzH17z.3qp@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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- In article <BzH17z.3qp@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) wrote:
- >> visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:
- >>> brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets) writes:
- >>>> I would like to propose a newsgroup for the patriot movement in the U.S.
- >>>> This would include discussions on rights violations by legislation, gold
- >>>> and silver as payment for debts, freedom organizations and many other
- >>>> basic US Constitutional topics.
- >>> How about talk.politics.reactionary as an alternative?
- >> misc.activism.{reactionary,conservative}?
- >Well, we already have misc.activism.progressive, so the obvious name would
- >be misc.activism.retrogressive, wouldn't it?
- >
- >Is there a specific party or other organization that actually calls itself
- >the "patriot movement" that Brian might have had in mind? Or does he mean
- >a grab-bag of everything from Larouche to televangelists to Aryan Nations
- >to the Libertarian Party?
-
- Again, I think people should stop tarring the right wing with the brush of
- "retrogressive" or "larouche". I consider myself moderate to liberal but
- find it surprising that people who apparently are my ideological peers
- somehow don't feel that the people on the other side of center have a
- right to their views. Remember the old "I disagree with what you say, but
- will defend to the death your right to say it" line? It applies here.
-
- Given that the Republican party and right-wing organizations such as the
- NRA aren't suffering for membership, I think a USENET group called
- talk.politics.usa.conservative would be read and used by a lot of people.
- Stop insulting the intelligence of the readers of news.groups by saying
- that this group deserves only a name like talk.politics.reactionary or
- misc.activism.retrogressive.
-