From: lav4208@venus.tamu.edu
Subject: Libero/consevatives DO oppose First Amendment rights ?
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:19:00 GMT

>>Perhaps you can point out a few opposing examples for us?
> 
>   I would be happy to.  A few weeks ago, some femists here at Iowa State
>started really pushing the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa
>Constitution.  They put signs up EVERYWHERE pushing the admendment and
>advertizing rallies by true feminazis like Eleanor Smeal.  Many of the
>signs were outright male-bashing, such as the ones that headlined
>"WE REMEMBER ANITA HILL!!!!"
> 

	Please explain how the sign you cited is male bashing.

>
>   I eventually decided to put up some signs of my own.  I had received
>an 11"x17" flyer in the mail from a group opposing the Iowa ERA.  I
>had the flyer reduced to 8.5"x14", and started posting copies around the
>campus.  It did not take long for me to notice that my signs would 
>disappear not longer after I'd post them.  Neither I nor anybody else
>touched any of the signs posted by the feminists, but my signs were
>very rapidly torn down.
> 
>   On one occasion, I was walking with a friend through the campus, and
>talking to him about the incident with my signs.  We came to a building
>where I'd posted several, and miraculously enough some were still 
>there.  We left briefly, came back five minutes later, and sure enough
>they were gone.  As I was pointing out the disappearance of the signs,
>the girl who tore them down suddenly appeared.
> 
>   My experiences with my anti-ERA signs were by no means unique.  I
>was told by a friend who is involved with the local Campus Crusade
>for Christ that they have a terrible time keeping signs up.  The signs
>they post are threatening to absolutely nobody, yet they often have to
>repost the same sign several times because it will get repeatedly
>torn down.  
> 
>   All of this leads me to the solid conclusion that conservatives
>are the real guarantors of First Amendment Rights in the U.S.  Liberals
>support other people's First Amendment rights only when the speach 
>agrees with them.  Liberals have concocted a large number of terms 
>like "political correctness" in attempt to stifle the First Amendment
>rights of people with opposing viewpoints.  Political incorrectness
>**IS** fully protected by the First Amendment, but liberals refuse to
>accept this.  Conservatives, however, always respect the First Amendment
>rights of everybody, regardless of opposing viewpoints.
> 
>   Liberals are no more the guarantors of the First Amendment than
>totalitarians are the guarantors of personal freedoms.
> 
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------
> 


	I live and work on a primarily conservative campus. Everything
	you cited above goes on here too, only here its the conservatives
	doing it to the liberals. The era signs dont last 5 minutes and
	the religious/conservative signs have been known to evoke threats
	if they are touched. If you will not confuse the entirety of liberalism
	with the small sample  to which you are exposed, I will try not to
	do the same with conservatives.
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