Klarinet Archive - Posting 000266.txt from 2004/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@------.oxford.ac.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:18:52 -0500


Is this "back to Homo habilis", or "back to Australopithecus?"
Roger S.

In message <5.1.1.6.0.20040305064816.026d4950@------> klarinet@------.org writes:
> At 07:56 AM 3/3/2004 -0600, Forest Aten wrote:
> >You assume that governments have our (the people) best interest at heart.
> >Perhaps on a whole you are correct. But in Bush's case....we have two
> >clearly political (abusive) motives at work. (referring to the marriage
> >amendment of course)
> >1 pander to the extreme religious faction ("moral right")(voting block)
> >2 protect corporations (benefits; i.e. insurance, etc.)(Bush's paycheck)
> >I don't think we really have to worry much about this amendment passing here
> >in America. At some point in time this country is going to wake up and fight
> >their way back out of a dark age.
>
> I don't understand why you automatically assume that those who are trying
> to maintain the way things have been since the beginning of the human race
> have some sort of evil agenda. Seems to me that the people who are trying
> to force change in the face of significant opposition are the ones with an
> ax to grind! And that would be true regardless of the issue or what side
> you are on.
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
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