From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Now, to start working on the downfall of the USA
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:05:51 GMT
Distribution: world, na, usa
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

In article <92310.185447KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu (Kurt Ludwick) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.055022.6777@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
>tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) says:
>
>This is funny:
>
>>1) Raise every bodies taxes by 50%
>>2) Tax corporations at a rate of 100%
>>3) Pass laws requiring Homosexual Prayer in school
>>4) practice witchcraft, kill our children, break up families
>>5) put Gorbachev in the Supreme Court
>
>And this is either frivolous or condescending, depending on whether
>you actually -mean- this...:
>
>>(And if anybody actually believes this post... shame on you.  Clinton is
>>duly elected by the people.  Time to get used to it, pull together and try
>>to heal the country from the ravages of 12 years of "borrow and spend" and
>>wedge issue divisivness.)
>
>Do you -really- think someone believes this???

Yup... this morning when I logged in I had 28 new mail messages, of which all
but three or four were on the topic of this post.  Most of the responses
were fairly moderate, suggesting that taxes would only rise by 25% or so
before the country rose up and threw Clinton out...  Other people said that
50% was the lower limit because of the money required to fund the health plan.
He suggested that because of the higher level of taxes, more and more people
would quit their jobs and go on welfare, and the spiral of fewer and fewer
people to pay more and more governmentl programs means that the USA will
go bankrupt within 3 years.

As per homosexuality and witchcraft, etc...  one person was
very upset because "It is well known that homosexuals must recruit
in schools, because they cannot reproduce themselves.  As the first step,
they have to break a child away from God, so they teach satanic secular 
humanist religion.  This could be called homosexual prayers"

Other people commented on "witchcraft" being required reading in schools,
while the bible is left aside.

Another brilliant "thinker" wrote me a long rambling letter which concluded
with this quote (taken via cut and paste so you get the full essence).

#                   It is just a short step from the government allowing
# abortions to the government requiring abortions. Who do you think
# will be made to have abortions? Not the poor. Not liberals. Not
# homosexuals. Liberals and democraps stay in powered by giving people
# like this money and making them dependant on big government. No. The
# people who will be required to have abortions will be conservatives
# and Godly people who will fight rather than kill thier children. So
# the liberal government will make them suffer the death penalty because
# they don't want to kill the children.  This is how the democrats plan
# to stay in powered for ever, by killing Christians and conservations,
# like they killed the japanese during world war II.  Only we won't
# let them. That is the war that Pat Buchanan is talking about.  If you
# don't want to be swept aside then you had better give up your evil
# ways and go to church.

Well, this certainly helped convince me that Christian Principles are
alive and well... I plan to go to church tomorrow!