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To: Neocon who wrote (24816)	7/19/2000 12:47:40 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Not surprising at all Neo! I am not sure how it happened for me. But I do remember being about 17 working my butt off in D.C. painting slum apartments in the 90 degree heat. I came out of one apartment to get a swig of water when I noticed a long line in front of one of those small corner liquor stores. I asked a friend, why is there such a long line there today? And he answered...Oh, it's always like that on Welfare day. Each month thereafter I took special interest in the end of the month liquor store cycle. In some local neighborhoods, it was the only day people bothered to come out of their home! Here I was a kid of 17, not really very well educated and I ALWAYS could find a job in and around D.C. All you had to do was be willing to show up and work. Although I didn't realize it at the time, I think at that moment I became a conservative. The first time I voted I voted for Reagan. And I've been a conservative ever since. Michael

To: Neocon who wrote (24816)	7/19/2000 8:21:01 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Murray Rothbard was active in the New Left in the 60s. He succeeded in convincing SDS president Carl Oglesby there was virtue in the ideas of the Old Right. This delightfully idiosyncratic happy warrior had been a supporter of both the 1948 Thurmond-Wright States' Rights ticket and the 1968 Peace and Freedom Party, a supporter of tax renegade Gordon Kahl, the Black Panthers, mayoral candidate Norman Mailer, Senator Mark Hatfield, SDS, and Pat Buchanan. His efforts at fusing the New Left with the Old Right failed, but all those confabs he called together in the 60s got ideas flowing, and several movements and groups were started as a result. I may be mistaken, but I think the Libertarian Party was founded as a direct result of Rothbard getting people together.