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I'm forced to agree, everything I've seen about Gingrich tells me he's a
power grabbing
old style demagogue.
We don't need 'em!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hughes [mailto:planetp@aci.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 9:38 PM
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Gingrich, Moynihan step down
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) was a history professor, a science-fiction fan, even
> the coauthor of an SF book. He will not run for Speaker and will probably > resign from Congress. > > It is eery, looking at history, how terribly often the best and brightestare
Mr. Gingrich was also a rabid anti-drug campaigner who advocated the death
penalty
for certain kinds of drug users. Anybody who advocates death by the state
for what
one puts in his or her own body (no matter how harmful) is not a civilized
person,
nor someone I want to be in a position of power. Gingrich's departure is
the best
political news I've received all week. Good riddance!
BTW, reading and/or writing science fiction does not necessarily make one
sane or
decent.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> I'm forced to agree, everything I've seen about Gingrich tells me he's a power grabbing
old style demagogue.
We don't need 'em!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hughes [mailto:planetp@aci.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 9:38 PM
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Gingrich, Moynihan step down
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) was a history professor, a science-fiction fan, even
> the coauthor of an SF book. He will not run for Speaker and will probably
> resign from Congress.
>
> It is eery, looking at history, how terribly often the best and brightest are
> removed or disabled just before the deluge. Someday, I think, historians will
> look back at this moment and say: "Here marks the decline of the American Pax."
>
> There is now no hope that Congress will act rationally in the coming storm.
Mr. Gingrich was also a rabid anti-drug campaigner who advocated the death penalty
for certain kinds of drug users. Anybody who advocates death by the state for what
one puts in his or her own body (no matter how harmful) is not a civilized person,
nor someone I want to be in a position of power. Gingrich's departure is the best
political news I've received all week. Good riddance!
BTW, reading and/or writing science fiction does not necessarily make one sane or
decent.