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Re: This is revolting


In a message dated 7/6/99 3:49:37 AM, Amelia57 at aol_com writes:

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	wow. i feel a lot of deep-seated bitterness and anguish over the 
upcoming election, but i need to say something.
	 you cannot imagine my disappointment when, after rejoicing over the 
political "knowledge" displayed in this list, i realize that most of you 
posting on this subject can't even spell. i think our campaigns are focused 
on the wrong issues. forget taxes, faggots, and unemployment. how will jobs 
increase when America can't read and write correctly. lets start from the 
ground up.
	as for the trustworthiness ( or lack thereof ) of this year's 
candidates, lets remember that everyone has skeletons in their closets. if 
you didn't vote in the last election, please shut up. you may as well not 
exist in any political discussion unless you'll allow us to dig up your 
darkest and ugliest secrets and paste them on the cover of every newspaper in 
the country. 
	if we can't discuss this like adults ( which i assume most of us 
are), in SOBRIETY and without vulgar language, maybe we should stick to the 
brainless subject of music. 

annie  >>

Sounds like good old fashioned moral relativity. Be very nice,everything 
goes,and nothing matters. I usually quit taking anyone seriously on a list 
when one of their main focal points is somebodies spelling. Usually you have 
the capability to grasp what the meaning is or make the cognitive grammatical 
corrections in your head. It seems pretty anal to expect people to proofread 
and correct a posting on a list as if it were a term paper or something. 
Everyone doesn't have that time. So lets be kind and PC and discern the 
humanity in us all.(right). As far as politicians go,most of the statements 
and criticisms seem right on target. Politicians are whores. We live in a 
country where are vote always takes a back seat to special interests. The 
number one issue in this country is campaign finance reform. Without that we 
will continue to see these things happen and nothing will be solved. The 
political bribery by these groups is a poison in our world. So if some people 
are pissed and want to attack candidates,so be it. This country was founded 
by radicals and dissidents and people that wouldn't accept the status quo and 
were willing to sacrifice themselves and the oppressors.


I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that 
leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not 
outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, 
fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts 
whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their 
children, and for their children's children. 
Mother Jones

One of the boys said I was looking well. Of course I am. There is going to be 
a racket and I am going to be in it! 
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1910

 "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."
 Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Being polite will be the demise of our country. Say it,mean it, speak it and 
sleep well at night.

I hope I spelled everything right. God knows  I don't want to be the one that 
tilts the balance of America  so that it falls off the edge  into it's 
assured demise.

"Keep on Rockin the Free world"
Neil Young
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