From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: Hate Speech Okay, says the Supreme Court
Summary: WARNING: Contains right-wing ranting.
Keywords: O tempora, O mores!
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:58:18 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.

In article <1992Jul26.204757.19969@Princeton.EDU> 
egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:

>. . . What has happened that an enormous,
>across-the-board decline in educational standards has entailed that even
>elite law schools have in reality given up on training their aliterate
>students in reading and thinking.  Because the lawyers unleashed upon
>the world in the past twenty years know, in their heart of hearts, that
>they are untutored savages, they make a virtue of their savagery.  
>[Ed Nilges]

I must say that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Nilges's assessment
of the lawyers who have come into the Bar in the past twenty years.
I personally know several who became lawyers after completing a
thorough study of the Talmud and its commentaries, something which
raises them as far above "untutored savages" as the moon is above
the earth.

>Their
>favorite victims are feminists, members of their own generational cohort
>who have had to work harder and display indeed much learning in the CLS
>movement.  They are the first generation that dares not attack its
>fathers; they turn on their sisters instead.  [Ed Nilges]

Our sisters?  Mr. Nilges has displayed enough familiarity with culture
that he will surely recall the scene in _The Pirates of Penzance_ where
the heroine, Mabel, resolves to pursue even her boy friend, Frederick,
on the grounds that he has rejoined the Pirates.  She tells the Police
that since Frederick has chosen to constitute himself as their foe, it 
is their duty to regard him as such and to pursue and capture him.

The same goes for the feminists.  Many of them are women who could have
been good wives and good mothers within the patriarchal system, but who
have instead chosen to ally themselves with those who seek to tear that
system down, to abolish male privilege.  Now, without male privilege,
life would not be worth living.  These women have constituted themselves
our foes, and it is our duty to regard them as such.

>I of course do not know whether Mike is a lawyer, a law student, a
>paralegal sucking up to power, or precisely what.  The point is that his
>behavior crystallises what's been happening, a real decadence.  [Ed Nilges]

There's "a real decadence" enveloping our land, all right, but it's not
associated with either Mr. Godwin or Mr. Nilges:

     "Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held 
      responsible for it all."  (Luke 11:51b, NIV)

It is the decadence of '60's hedonism, of the "Fabulous Furry Freak
Brothers" and their pot, of rock music that banishes melody and harmony 
and deifies pure rhythm, of "Studs'n'Sluts" who act as if sex is some 
sort of slot-machine game, of "glory holes" and the docks and the
baths and fisting and, yes, even felching, of people who should be
young, strong citizens building families and a healthy society and 
who instead are snorting line after line of coke in the pursuit of
momentary pleasure.  *That's* decadence.  *This* is just a newsgroup
on Usenet.  I hope Mr. Nilges sees the difference.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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