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To: Scumbria who wrote (143567)	5/8/2001 9:05:34 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

What a joke. You compare conservatives to Hitler, Stalin and Mao, the greatest mass murderers in history and the conservatives on the thread are intolerant and impolite??? Typical demolib hypocrite. I don't know what you are smoking for breakfast but it must be some powerful stuff. You are correct in one respect, true conservatives don't suffer fools gladly. Its one reason you draw such strong criticism.

To: Scumbria who wrote (143567)	5/8/2001 9:10:10 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dear Scumbria: I suspect that you feel conservatives are right wingers yet it is my belief that conservatives feel a strong affinity to the Constitution which has served us well for over 200 years and would like to preserve it. However if right wingers are perceived as you say then I guess I would have to reply that left wingers (liberals) are perceived as Gadflys and idiots. jdn

To: Scumbria who wrote (143567)	5/8/2001 9:02:58 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I agree that common decency and politeness should be the first rule of communication. I do my best to avoid rudeness, and when I fail I try to apologize. Please inform me if I ever do otherwise. I'm not so sure you don't relish and invite it, though. You stimulate a lot of reactions that are pretty predictable, given the topic of this thread. I don't think intolerance is an exclusive purview of the right. I once belonged to a creative writing group that was populated by some pretty liberal souls. One lady was even an employee of the Sierra Club -- she was a terrible writer, but we met in her apartment. Another lady held environmentalist views and read a well written piece of hers that had a lot of factual errors in it. The following week I read an existing piece of mine to present issues the way I saw them. I thought I was going to be physically ejected from the meeting. After some discussion, I was allowed to complete my piece, but I was so rattled my voice quavered. I never went back. If you are interested, you can read that piece in one hundred years. It's sealed in the time capsule at the Juneau Federal Building and won't be opened until 2094. That is an appropriate time period. Forestry is a very long term enterprise--one that outlives five generations of professional foresters before being fulfilled.