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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (5024)	11/6/2000 9:51:10 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Dear long-gone, Now, now, braveheart, a little moderation would go a long way. This is, of course, a venue for the thoughtful illumination of fact and opinion. Now, for instance, you've incorrectly labeled me as transgendered, pigmented and penniless. None of this is true. I had thought that all the Jacksonian rabble were on the Left, and unashamedly moronic about it. I see I was half right. Alas, the light is coming on for one as benighted as me. I now understand that you are quibbling with me over my hyperbole regarding my use of the term "all". I can understand your consternation. Because I've clearly overstepped the bounds of courteous discourse. Well, let me correct my error for your sake. I was wrong. The rate of incarceration of black men in Texas is not 100%. Among black men ages 18-25 it is merely somewhat over 50% who are either in confinement, or in the parole system. There, do you feel better now? Good, I'm so happy that I've set the record straight. Now, I'm sure that you can find that information on your own. You don't need me to nursemaid you, now do you? But let me go further out on a limb, which I really sincerely hope you can cut me off of. Let me suggest that it was with malice aforethought that Ollie North and his cronies 1)sold weapons to our sworn enemies, 2)gave the profits to fascists in Central America who 3)found that another profit center was drug trafficking and 4)with the willing complicity of aspects of our federal bureaucracy sold their products into the inner cities in the U.S. where 5) puritanical drug laws could be used to round up the appropriate inappropriate people and neutralize them. First in prisons and later by removing their right to the franchise. I.e. the right to vote. Not to mention: 6)that a lot of manufacturers of small arms found the same inner city to be a convenient place to make a profit, while communities were destroyed. I'm so sorry I offended you. Really, I'd love to see the world the way you do. It would be so much easier. long-gone, get lost. Ray