[273] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shannon P McNair)
Tue Sep 27 18:16:12 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shannon P McNair <smcnair@willamette.edu>
To: castillo@media.mit.edu
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9409270430.AA01929@media.mit.edu>
On Tue, 27 Sep 1994 castillo@media.mit.edu wrote:
> >>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.
> >
>Vernon >
> One thing to keep in mind is that the right wing excesses of conservatives
> have many more judicial (esp. Supreme Court) impediments than the left
> wing excesses of liberals. On many issues (school prayer, abortion,
> flag burning, etc.) ...
>
> This is not to endorse the freedom-stealers of any political persuasion.
> But we're a bit safer with some grumbling by the right about prayer than
> with whining by the left about fairness.
>
>
Incredible. I'm safer with the right that tends toward state-sponsored
religion than leftist socialists. Unbelievable. Do you have a
preference for the Dark Ages that you don't have for Stalinist Russia?
Personally, I will rail against religious bigots with political
aspirations every bit as much as those that have other stripes of statism.
