From: pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness)
Subject: Re: Boycotts, Boycotts, Boycotts....
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin TX
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:16:36 GMT

In article <BzJo13.Dqw@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.165326.7381@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:
>>However, since the Political Correctness Police are now boycotting
>>on so many issues, the PC person may soon find it impossible to
>>purchase anything or travel anywhere (except Santa Monica, CA). I
>>think that would be great!

>That was the bottom line on the issue.  It'll take you an hour to buy three
>items in the store, when you have to stop and consider all the possible
>boycotts and what your purchase will mean (assuming you're PC).  The real 

Gee, think of the wonders of having the politically correct starving
to death in supermarket aisles. Please, PC people, don't eat, peroid.
Just think, eating something uses it up, so it's not recycleable.
And the end-product is toxic pollutants that befoul the environment.
So don't eat - and help reduce the manifestly over-populated planet
(eventually - it takes two weeks).

>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. 

Better yet ... it's safe to say that *any* movie these days has at least
some degree of policitically correct gibberish in its storyline.
And that implies at least some sympathy for the Co boycott.
Boycott *every* movie, dammit. (There's not much good stuff out there
anyway.) You figure for every 'innocent' you 'hurt', you've still
bagged a PC-leftist (Sarandon, Cher, Dreyfus). Just watch those
Ben Hur reruns, with NRA and NR-adman Heston, or enjoy the freedom of
not having to sit through today's tired shallow movies. You too can
join the Partnership for a Cher-Free America.

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.
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).

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.
But what about the dunces who sent Barbara Boxer to the Senate;
reason enough to strike California down. Or the wonderous Oregonian
people - they thought they could escape the boycott maw by defeating
their own amendment proposal, but they do have Sen. Packwood hanging
around their necks. You've got D.C. putting Marion Barry back in
power *after* his jail term (well maybe D.C. should be on the list,
just for being D.C). Not to mention the fact that they resoundingly
defeated a death-penalty proposal. New York taxpayer money is supporting
the racist Leonard Jeffries at CCNY, while their city's mayor seems to have
trouble condemning rioting (depending on the race of the rioters). Strike.
Massachusetts isn't content to send one Kennedy to capital hill, it sends two.
When one speaks of "moral climate", the elder Kennedy can rated as a
tropical depression, both in his public acts and private life. Strike.
Any place with the heinous homeless-creating rent-control. Strike.
Strike. Berkeley. nuff said. Strike. 

Which may well leave us with a "House divided against itself",
political correct and politically incorrect mutual boycotts
creating a cultural/political divide.  For all the disadvantages
of such silliness , it has one advantage: if the PC and non-PC truly
can't stand each other, at least they won't be in eachother's
company.

Pat,
Founding member, Partnership for a Cher-Free America,
Boycott Austin! Don't reply to this post!
A followup to this post indicates opposition to the CO boycott (since
your reply is going to Colorado).
boycott the Government! Evade your taxes! (but don't tell it was I who
told you, okay?)
boycott this post! don't read it! (oops too late)

Pat is sorry that he can't be better with satire. (smileys/batteries
not included. Void where prohibited by law or local custom.) 
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