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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
- Message-ID: <BzoDI0.8EA@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:15:35 GMT
- References: <a_rubin.724456483@dn66> <BzH17z.3qp@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <BzMGur.2BM@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
- > >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.
-
- For crying out loud. How the heck am I supposed to interpret a proposal
- like Brian's? I genuinely do not have the faintest clue whether the
- "patriot movement" is a lobbying organization with a membership of a
- million and paid staff of 50 or something that exists only in his brain
- after watching Red Dawn once too often. If he really meant something like
- "talk.politics.republican" (your interpretation, though his proposal for
- the Gold Standard as an issue is not something I've heard of them making
- recently), why on earth didn't he say that? His proposals *do* cover the
- range of outfits I mentioned; if he means something more specific, it's
- for him to say what it is.
-
-
- > 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.
-
- Well, as other people have pointed out, there are already lots of
- newsgroups devoted to that kind of politics: talk.politics.guns or
- alt.individualism, for two, and (de facto) talk.politics.misc. So if this
- one's different, what makes it so?
-
- cheers - jack
-
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