[276] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shannon P McNair)
Tue Sep 27 18:45:22 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shannon P McNair <smcnair@willamette.edu>
To: Travis Corcoran <tjic@ICD.teradyne.com>
Cc: castillo@media.mit.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9409272219.AA04006@difrel.ICD.Teradyne.COM>
Look, it won't be very long before we hit another election where the
keywords will be "family values", under whose wing resides the mentality
to suppress intellectual and economic freedom to include: contraband,
homosexuals, prostitution, preference of religion, and the like. We may
well have a Republican government in the near future the way we have a
Deomcratic one now. We consider both of them contrary to a libertarian
vision. But I hope that everyone has channel surfed by the 700 club
lately, where Dan Quail, Oliver North, and William Bennett among others
are after the all important vote. You know the details of what they are
after, and you know where it all eventually goes. Don't you agree that
the new Republican vision of government looks a bit like the Roman
Catholic vision of government in the last days of Rome? I have zilch
against Catholics, but I can tolerate that kind of government as much as
I can stand Nazis.
Ease up on "liberals" and "conservatives" in the broader sense. Let's
target destruction issue by issue, platform by platform, vote by vote.
smcnair@willamette.edu
