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To: greenspirit who wrote (14586)	3/8/2000 10:15:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Thanks for posting that article. Very very good and very very right. dan

To: greenspirit who wrote (14586)	3/8/2000 10:24:00 PM
From: pz	Respond to of 769667

Mike, Excellent article. Paul

To: greenspirit who wrote (14586)	3/8/2000 11:42:00 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769667

Michael, I have never heard it said better, even after being bombarded by millions of words. The simplicity of such an honest appraisal is beautiful. ~H~

To: greenspirit who wrote (14586)	3/9/2000 7:12:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 769667

It's not guns we must control. I have no problem with that statement, except to the extent that it suggests that there is something else that must be controlled. Even that idea I wouldn't mind, unless someone gets the idea that Government should do the controlling. That's something I wouldn't like at all.

To: greenspirit who wrote (14586)	3/9/2000 9:23:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Greetings Shrublings!, Michael, Thanks for the quite interesting article on guns and morals by Mr. Coren and the great website. I found this perspicacious pre-coronation article there. May the spirit of TR be with you: commentators.com McCain fights 'invisible empire' Saturday, Mar 04, 2000 Chris Murphy Washington The five-count conviction of Democratic fund-raiser Maria Hsia presents the Republican Party with an election-year bonanza. It proves the criminality of the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign of 1996, especially the emblematic sleaze of Al Gore's "Buddhist temple" scandal. Will the Republican establishment, the fat cats and entrenched GOP officials, exploit this historic opportunity to turn the rascals out and carry out a true clean-up of such filthy fund-raising rackets? Will they nominate a man, John McCain, committed more boldly to political reform than any candidate since Theodore Roosevelt? Will they take the Maria Hsia convictions and this fresh humiliation of Vice President Gore to the American people and propose the perfect candidate to remedy the horrors? On the eve of the "Super Tuesday" primaries, the maverick faces difficult odds. Rather than adopt McCain, the man many see as the perfect antidote to the campaign fund-raising sickness that made the White House the home of endless Democratic sleep-overs for $100,000 contributors, the GOP money men in every state and country are doing all they can to defeat him. Their worst fear, it's now painfully obvious, is not that John McCain will betray his promise of campaign reform but that he will honor it ? just as he did his country through all those years of torturous captivity in the "Hanoi Hilton." The comparison to Teddy Roosevelt is a powerful one. Just like T.R., McCain won office on his bravery in war. Roosevelt was elected New York governor in 1898, and vice president in 1900, due to his exploits in the Spanish-American War. McCain was elected to Congress after returning from five years in captivity in North Vietnam. Their strongest connection, however, comes in how they used public office once they achieved it. Gov. Roosevelt pushed through legislation making the top corporations pay taxes on the money they made doing business with the state: building tunnels, operating the rapid transit systems, providing gas. "A corporation which derives its power from the state should pay the state a just percentage of its earnings as a return for the privilege it enjoys," T.R. argued. As governor, he also pushed through the most advanced civil service system in the country. Roosevelt's targets of reform at the turn of the 20th century ? graft and patronage ? have their stark parallel today in the fund-raising power of corporations and trade associations over Congress and the presidency itself. T.R. wrote of an "invisible empire" that was never reported in the newspapers, an empire of deal-making and payoff that thrived in secret. That "invisible empire" of Teddy Roosevelt's time is the "iron triangle" John McCain has been attacking in the year 2000. Will he win a public response Tuesday in California, New York and in other states, as they join in the presidential nomination process? Will his call for a clean-up grab at the heartstrings of Republicans, Democrats and independents? What's clear is that the money men in the Republican Party would rather fight than switch. They've banked their money on the heir from Texas and on the same rotten cash-grabbing system that made Maria Hsia a criminal and Al Gore's "Buddhist temple" visit more than a match in infamy to George W. Bush's South Carolina debut at Bob Jones University. As for the people who have the patriotism to show up Tuesday? "I made up my mind that the only way to beat the bosses," the Republican Roosevelt once said, "was by making my appeal as directly and emphatically as I knew how to the mass of voters themselves." We will see on Tuesday night whether the gutsy John McCain will succeed in doing the same. (See the post-coronation article in my next post! Two words: "Adios Amigo!") ===>