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- From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Fighting fundies
- Message-ID: <14037@optilink.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:01:11 GMT
- References: <C18GJC.78J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- From article <C18GJC.78J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, by mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!):
-
- > These fundie groups that are trying to make our lives
- > a hell are "non-profit"! Now, I may be wrong here, but is it not required for
- > a non-profit organization to abstain from any political activity?
-
- Eh? This would sure change the face of the planet!
- I better cancel that check that I just mailed to Common Cause.
- Good thing I didn't send one to the ACLU! :-)
-
- > Another idea: Why not try to drain the fundies' pocketbooks a little bit each
- > day on our own? A few months ago, someone mentioned sending lead weights to
- > them through business reply mail? What about sending lots of letters, without
- > return address, postage due? How about calling their 1-800 numbers (Do they
- > have any?) incessantly, thus a.driving up their phone bills(maybe) and b.tying
- > up their lines and operators' time?
-
- This is called harrasment, and as such is illegal.
- Remember the saying, "do unto others..." How would you
- feel if your favorite cause's 800 number was diluged by
- this kind of nonsense? Do us all a favor and grow up.
-
- Your .signature line says that hate is not a family value.
- I guess your desires to drive up the postal and phone bills
- of some retarded group stems from your deep love for them.
-
- > All these things are free. I don't know if they would work; maybe someone has
- > tried some or all of this before. But anyone who has any other ideas, let us
- > know. I think the only way these hate groups are going to lose is if they run
- > out of money. So why not help them run out of money?
-
- Do you really think that these hate groups are such a great
- cause that they will steamroll over the top of you? I think
- not. These groups are largely composed of morons, and will
- never be a sizeable percentage of the population.
-
- There is a much larger percentage of people, gay and straight
- alike, that believe in the concept of personal freedoms. The
- best thing to do is become organized in order to educate the
- masses of the virtue of your cause, and not attempt to destroy
- the freedoms of those with differing beliefs. How can you
- expect tolerance if you do not display it yourself?
-
- Years ago, I despised the NRA. How could a group that is less
- than one percent of the population get away with so much? I
- realized that the key was organization and focus. I also
- learned that the NRA is not evil, they are just a group of
- people like you and me who happen to be particularly effective
- at protecting their interests. There are some very valuable
- lessons here.
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