From: corey@netcom.com (Corwyn J Alambar)
Subject: The Christian Right and What we're to do about it
Summary: We need to get together and fight these people at their own game.
Keywords: reaction, backlash, politics, Colorado, Oregon, PANIC
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:40:19 GMT

Hello, everyone out there in net land.  It is with shame that I post this, 
but I'm afraid that it has to be done. 

WHen I was watching the Republican National convention in Houston this
August, I blanched when Pat Robertson escribed his plan to 'take back the
streets of AMerica, block by block,' the implication of force very prevalent
in the context of his speech.  He issued a rallying cry and call to arms, 
effectively, to the fundamentalist Christian right to rise up and fight against
the "infidels," those being the homosexuals, the occultist, the pagans, the 
pro-choice people, the artists, an anyone who didn't claim to have a permanent
appointment on SUnday mornings in some kind of church.

Now, with the results of the elections showing very strong support for some
very serious amendments and propositions, and with many local and civic leaders
being drawn from this pool of trained far right personnell, it is time for there
to be issued a corresponding call to arms.  They have stated that their purpose
is to take from us everything we have had, because we do not believe the way 
they do.

By a call to arms, I do not mean going and firebombing churches and shooting
Sunday schools filled with children, like they would do to us, pagans, 
homosexuals, and other people who do not fit their staunch, Aryan view.  What I
mean to do is to begin organizing workshops to raise awareness, bringing
foreward a publicity campaign similar to theirs, starting on the grass roots, 
showing the truths behind the propoganda, and using their own tactics to drive
them back to their well varnished pews and out of the courthouses and public 
offices.  We need to get our own people on these boards, these advisory
committees, to fight these people at their own game.  _We_ need to get members
on all 16000 school board of the United States, before they do.  It is a race
now, and it's for our survival.

So why am I posting, you probably ask.  The reason is simple.  I am trying to
act as a kind of central organizer, collecting information on all these 
causes, and trying to come up with some guided plan of attack, so that we too
can center our resources and try to drive these people back from our throats,
in the places that need our help the most.  

So, you are probably asking what you can do.  I am not asking for money,
because I am not legally authorized to take money to redistribute in the form 
of political causes.  What you can do is one of several things:

	1)  If you find any of these groups trying to subvert the regular
	    process of government, send what they are doing, which office, and
	    when and where they were elected or are trying to be elected.  
	    Nanmes, campaign info, any information would be appreciated.

	2)  Volunteer time and energy to track down misuses, and even court
	    precedents that support our cause.  Any information, any
	    precedents, anything at all that can help, we can use.

	3)  Volunteer time and effort, as a lawyer, a consultant, a fundraiser,
	    a coordinator, a motivator. Anything, so that we can get our
	    message out before it is too late.

If this sounds frightening and militaristic to you, it is much tamer than the
'call to arms' that has been issued around the country by the fundamentalist
CHrstians.  Do not fall into contempt for them, because they are more cunning
than you would think, and they have the power to attain their agenda, in little
steps and pieces.

I will be the first to volunteer, acting as a kind of net coordinator, 
gathering info on their platforms and activities, as well as the orgasnizations
that also serve to help us, and getting necessary resources where they belong.
The time for action was yesterday, but we can still make a change today. 
Please, don't let that be a vain hope.



Anyone interested in contributing information, getting more information, or
any feedback on this post should be directed to me, corey@netcom.com

Please foreward this post as far as you feel necessary, to spread the word.
Snail address is available upon request.  Thank you.

"Rewrites every story, every poem ever wrote
	eliminated incompetence, and those who break the laws
		follow the instructions of the new way's evil book of rules
			replacing rights with wrongs..."
				-Megadeth, "Hook in Mouth"

This has been a public service announcement from The Tiger That Stalks The Net.

The Tiger That Stalks The Net is: Corey Alambar (corey@netcom.com,
						corey@ocf.berkeley.edu)