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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Clinton is President, Bush is not even history
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.131625.7630@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <llr1psINNg59@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:16:25 GMT
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- In article <llr1psINNg59@news.bbn.com>
- rrizzo@star-trek.bbn.com (Ron Rizzo) writes:
-
- >It's time to disarm the murderous citizenry and get rid of
- >American neo-nazism:
- >
- >- urban drug gangs
- >- the National Rifle Association
- >- the Ku Klux Klan
- >- survivalists
- >- neo-Nazi groups from Aryan Nation to Unity Christians
- >
- >and to overwhelm ultra-conservatives, the political prelude
- >to Nazism, and their TV evangelists, direct mail operations,
- >think tanks, and antigay and sexist front organizations.
-
- >Let's push them all into the political gutter!
-
- They're there already. You may have meant the ash-heap of
- history! :-)
-
- I think there's a sign in your charge, however, that
- indicates where liberal programs often err. Not to start up
- another round of our perpetual gun and Second Amendment
- debates, but the gun issues are fundamentally different from
- neo-Nazism, despite a high incidence of Nazis who are
- members of the NRA, etc.
-
- The CFV, OCA, and other acronymic filth are not using guns
- to achieve their objectives. Later they doubtless will, but
- we better not let them get that far.
-
- Be that as it may, a program of disarming the people is even
- less likely to succeed than the War on Drugs, and as I'd
- like actual and incipient fascism to cease being a force in
- this society, I think it's a mistake to conflate one's
- anti-gun sentiments with those worthwile objectives.
-
- The answer to fascism is to push a better program. What the
- fascists have that we don't have is single-mindedness and
- excellent organization. Liberals by their nature are always
- weak on organization.
-
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