From: kpm@druhi.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106))
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Liberals maligned (was: Goof2 Stolen at Gunpoint)
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: kpm@druhi.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106))
Followup-To: talk.politics
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO

In article <16oavcINN4ck@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.054710.2031@sequent.com> dickwin@sequent.com (Dick Winningstad) writes:
>>The liberals of this country will work very hard to be your mom and
>>eliminate anything that is different and could be of danger to you.
>
>I think the term you're looking for is "Safety Nazi," not liberal.
>
>I know you're just *DYING* to hear my point of view...

I know I was, and I was cheering every word.  Some words worth repeating,
followed by my own words...I'm _SICK TO DEATH_ of this so-called conservative
clap-trap too...

>The cryto-fascist conservatives of this country work very hard to strip
>away legal recognition of what individual rights we have remaining
>and to make you hate people that are different from yourself.
>
>Shall we have a dose of reality, here?  I'm not allowed to get married,
>I can't serve in a military, in most places in the country I can get
>fired or refused housing indiscriminately, and most states won't allow
>me to adopt children.  Why?  I'm queer.

>I'm a liberal, I believe in personal freedom.  I support free speech,
>free association, and private ownership of weapons.  I hate helmet
>laws, seat belt laws and most government intrusion into my life.

>Before you adon't the highground of conservatives being the last
>bastion of freedom, why don't you consider the war on drugs, abortion,
>government endorsment of protestantism, and the fact that they don't
>even consider me a full human.  Where is *MY* freedom to serve in
>the military or to raise children?  Bah.

>I'm leaping down your throat because you hit one of my more sensitive
>buttons.  The "liberal == bad" analogy has been forced down the throat
>of USA citizens for the past 12 years and I'm really fucking sick of it.
>Whatever happened to "personal freedom == good"?

Personal Freedom == Good died when the Pat Buchanans, Pat Robertsons,
Jesse Helms, William Dannemeyers, "Rev." Lou Sheldons, and other
fascists (I use the term correctly) started their campaign of 
divide and hate to gain power in this country.  It died when people
like Dan Quayle and what's-his-name in California discovered that all
they have to do is repeat half-truths and lies loudly and frequently
and the public will start believing them.  Bah!

I'm a liberal, and proud of it.  I believe that personal freedoms are _MORE
IMPORTANT_ than legislated, mandated safety, who believes that personal
freedoms are _MORE IMPORTANT_ than someone's right to be protected from that
which they find offensive, who believes that government has _NO BUSINESS_ 
telling me what to do with my personal life, who I sleep with, how I worship
[and even worse, insisting that I do (I don't)], and [OBMOTO] whether or not
I have to wear a lid (I always do though).  

This liberal disagrees with seat-belt laws, dislikes artificially low speed
limits, detests the tactics of the supposed drug-war (like arresting one's 
property, even if the person in posession of the property is only acting 
suspiciously), and [POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATION ALERT!] _YES_ this liberal 
intends to fight the Colorado motorcycle helmet law that _WILL_ be introduced 
next year.

Geez.  Perhaps I watched too much of the Republifascist convention last
night.  Tonight, I think I'll go for a ride instead.

Follow up to somewhere else -- back to the counter-steering discussion.

					Cheers,
  					    Kevin

Kevin Malloy  kpm@druhi.att.com  AT&T Bell Labs, Denver  (303) 538-3511
633 E. 11th Ave.					 1991 BMW K75RT	  
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