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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (15552)	12/17/1999 2:47:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

It is not exactly silence, but silent speaking <g, if it wasn't so grave a matter>. Last week Schroeder said something like: let's get serious with the Russians over Chechnya and consider real-life sanctions (when he was in Finland). However one somehow knew he wasn't about acting, but only about posing. Acts would speak louder than words - therefore nobody can afford them ... This is similar even with the NGOs. GfbV, I mentioned them earlier, organized Chechnya protests in roughly 80 German towns yesterday, and some are said to have encompassed several thousand people. However, even for them it seems clear that they are not trying to make a 'we'll stay until you act'-effort. Sad about a demise of political culture, MNI. PS: You can take part in a 'spam the Russian president with email, mail, FAX and postcards effort' under gfbv.de.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (15552)	12/17/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

XMAS READING!....XMAS READING!! webpan.com Excerpt: Christian political extremists in the US (which I shall henceforth refer to as "the Religious Right") are only a small minority of the population, but they are well-organized and wield political power far beyond their numbers. They have their own tv stations and they run the Republican party, yet they claim to be victims of "religious persecution". They skillfully manipulate public opinion through letter writing campaigns, to make their extremist views look mainstream. They lie, but they lie so loud and so often and so pervasively that people start to think they are speaking the truth. It is the strategy of the "big lie".. repeat a deliberate untruth as often as you can, and eventually, it will become a "fact" in the public consciousness. They have many different organizations, but only one agenda. That agenda is to establish a christian fundamentalist theocracy in the United States. [...]