Re: Extremism
From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 14:34:28 MST
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>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:49:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Extremism
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>
>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
>>Non-extremists have a goal. They pull in one direction until the
>>goal is reached. Then they stop. They have logical criteria and
>>stop when the objective goals have been achieved.
>
>Then by your defination my fellow NRA members and I are non-
>extremists. We have a goal, a simple one. That is to see that our
>constitutional rights granted under the 2nd Amendment are restored
>and that no further infringement takes place.
>
>Period.
>
And does "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" apply to children? To violent criminals? To Certified lunatics or the mentally incompetent? I don't even see the most rabid anti-abortionists driving around with bumper stickers declaiming that "you can have my fetus when you pry it from my cold dead womb"!
>
>Brian
>
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