From: dlo@druwa.ATT.COM (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Boycotts, Boycotts, Boycotts....
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:23:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.211636.19169@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) writes:
} In article <BzJo13.Dqw@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
} >problem is that while I agree with anyone who wants to boycott the $60
} >million Babe (BaBa Striesand), I disagree with those who want to follow her
} >lead and boycott Colorado.  Seems we always like our boycotts and disagree
} >with the other side's.  Dumb.
} 
} For those who want to start an anti-boycott/Streisand boycott, consider
} the fact that Streisand made that $60 million deal with Sony.  So ... 
} following the logic of the Colorado broad-brush boycott,
} just don't buy any Sony product or Columbia pictures movie. 
} ...
[Good stuff deleted]
} ...
} By the way, PC-people, Texas still has anti-sodomy laws and a corrupt
} (Democratic) legislature.  I think all concerned and enlightened
} progressives should join in boycotting Texas.

Last week, an editorial in one of our local newspapers mentioned a few
other places that have anti-sodomy laws of their own.  Notably Georgia,
Arkansas, Massachusetts, Utah, and Washington D.C.

Anyone know of other states or communities with them as well?

} Still, our grand capital city's City Council thinks itself morally superior
} to Colorado, and so has enacted some boycott provisions for their employees.
} No junkets to Aspen, sigh. Gee, the anti-boycott boycott can't be organized
} using Dell computers (from Austin, you see).

There's more.

The City Council of Atlanta was among the first to join the boycott.
According to the article, Georgia's anti-sodomy law can get someone a
20-year prison term.

President-elect Clinton will be moving from a state, whose anti-sodomy
law carries a $1000 fine and/or 1-year in prison, in order to reside in
a place whose anti-sodomy law carries a 10-year prison term.

The families of the late John and Robert Kennedy reside in Massachusetts
where it is illegal to operate a gay bar.  They usually spend their winter
vacation in Aspen.  But in support of the boycott, they have decided to go
to Utah instead -- a place whose anti-sodomy law carries a $1000 fine and
6 months in jail.

Colorado has no such laws.  Yet in the name of gay rights, we are being
boycotted by, and in deference to, people and places where gays can get
thrown in jail.  Go figure.

} The implications of boycotting a legislative district, because they
} voted in a way contrary to your beliefs, is mind-boggling. No one has
} yet mentioned how far this might go. We've heard rumblings about
} NC (Helms) and Louisiana (Duke), and then Arizona - now Colorado.

And the latest is Alaska in protest against a wolf(?) hunt.

[Good points about how boycotts can spread into other areas for other
 reasons deleted.]
--
David Olson   dlo@druwa.ATT.COM
"Keep in mind that I am speaking from Cambridge Massachusetts, which is
 about as far out as you can get."  Robert Reich, economic advisor to
 Bill Clinton, on "This Week with David Brinkley" 11/08/92
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