From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Simon Booth's *Great* American Novel (was Re: Walking down to the student center last night
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:55:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.182343.23647@eco.twg.com> chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall) writes:
>In <1992Oct12.211237.18170@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct12.190642.10921@eco.twg.com> chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall) writes:
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>Your other articles lead me to belive that you're pro-life. Am I
>>>right in assuming that your novel describes the steps that you
>>>think we should take in order to make the world a better place
>>>to live? Just curious.
>>>
>>Well, I am most definitely pro-life.  In the above scenario, the police
>>had standing orders to use whateve force necessary to stop the pro-choice
>>demonstrators.  Now, I haven't really written much so far, but the basic
>>storyline is: The future.  Liberalism has run amok in our society, the people
>>are fed up with this trend and demand a solution to this problem.  The people
>>find their solution embodied in the ideas promoted by the New Order Party,
>>who is elected by a landslide on their candidate's promise to stamp out
>>liberalism once and for all. You're right, to make the world a better place.
>
>Thanks for your quick response. I hope you haven't been discouraged
>by all the culturally-elite naysayers who have been slamming your ideas.
>I think that you have a very important story; one that very much needs to
>be told. When you start writing it, do you think that you could post
>it to the net as a serial?
>
>I can't say that I agree with the policies you recommend, but I think
>it's refreshing to see an consistant and coherent portrayal of one
>of the many pro-life viewpoints. It's been my experience that most
>pro-lifers do a good job of condemning abortion, but a very bad job
>of proposing sensible legislation. In the past, pro-life debaters
>on talk.abortion have subjected us to arguments like the following:
>
>    * "Abortion is MURDER, but of course people who hire hit men
>are victims, so we'll give them counseling instead of sending them
>to prison."
>    * "Abortion is infinitely more dangerous than childbirth, and
>when unbiased information about abortion is made readily
>available, no woman will want to have one ever again."
>    * "I am an airplane and/or a spaceship, therefore [some random
>conclusion that doesn't follow from this premise.]"
>    * "I have opinions about legislation, but I won't post them
>to the net, because, um, because, because, because pro-aborts
>will misrepresent them...yeah, that's the ticket, they'll
>misrepresent them."
>
>Obviously, this kind of muddy thinking has little or nothing to do
>with making the world a better place to live, and I think that this
>is the big difference between you and them. It's easy to say what
>the world is like, and to say what the world should be like. What
>you're doing is much harder...you're trying to map out the fastest and
>most efficient route between "here" and "there", and I applaud you
>for it.
>
>If you have time, do you think that you could give us a clearer
>picture of your plan? For example, I'm an incurable liberal, and
>my first thought on reading your article was, "Gee, using white
>phosphorus on abortion-rights demonstrators violates portions of
>the Bill of Rights." (These being the 'freedom of assembly' and
>'cruel and unusual punishment' clauses). Is it your opinion
>that the Bill of Rights has been too broadly interpreted by
>an activist judiciary, or do you believe that portions of the
>Bill of Rights are misguided and should be repealed?
>--
>
Well, actually the attacks on pro-choice people are a part of the larger
overall picture.  My aim is to demonstrate that extremeism only breeds extreme-
ism from the other side.  Like I said, extreme liberalism runs rampart, there's
the prospect of the people electing anyone out of desparation, without thinking
about what that candidate represents. Remember Germany 1933?? I am not a Nazi!
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