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Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Mon Sep 26 18:41:02 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 18:34:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?] as of Sep 26, 18:05
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), hhuang@MIT.EDU,
libertarians@MIT.EDU
In your message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?]
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| > HUD harassment of citizens for opposing them;
| > FCC regulation of airwaves (e.g., "Hush Rush" bill)
|
| It was that conservative bastion, the ACLU, that blew the lid off the HUD
| business.
So who said the liberals were monolithic or consistent?
| The liberal I argued this with, said he was "forced" to pay for Limbaugh
| every time he bought a product that bought advertising on his show.
What makes him think he's "forced" to buy a certain product? I thought
some liberals were running boycotts (e.g., Florida orange juice). How
does he feel about religious conservatives writing letters to sponsors
of shows they feel have too much sex?
| While
| it was an incorrect application, the idea that he should not be forced
| to support ideas he did not like was very libertarian. Never did he
| suggest that Limbaugh be censored, only that some shows of his own views
| got a chance at "his" airwaves as well. A misreading of the facts, or
| context, does not necessarily indicate hostility towards the principle.
Well, I don't think the intent of the original post was jsut to bash
liberals. The purpose was to show that the simple model "liberals are
for civil liberties, conservatives are for economic freedom" doesn't
always hold. One could also give a list of economic restrictions favored
by conservatives.
- Kevin
