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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9818)	6/14/2001 11:04:55 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

flap...look at this! Re: Clinton, Economy and Poppies: Am sincerely interested in your thoughts here.... They must have been growing the stuff for themselves, and smoking it....makes me feel sorry for Clinton....Did you ever think you'd hear moi say that? Ne neither... Maybe you could talk to the Taliban about human rights issues...seems they violate many every single day. Taliban Say They Undermined U.S. Economy Jun 14 8:51am ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement has identified the root of the U.S. economic slowdown -- their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's ban on opium poppy cultivation. "What economic analysts will not tell you is that opium... was the main instigator of the economic miracle that (former U.S. president Bill) Clinton achieved," said an article in the latest edition of the Taliban's official magazine. It said it was no coincidence the U.S. economy faltered as Omar banned poppy cultivation in Taliban-controlled areas in late 2000, sending prices soaring by reducing supply to the international drug trade after years of increasing output from Afghanistan. Afghan production of opium -- refined into heroin, largely in other countries -- fell last year by 28 percent from the record 1999 production of 4,565 tons, three quarters of the world supply. "It's known in select circles, spread over an extremely narrow area, that opium is more influential than oil in terms of its economic role in America in particular and the West as a whole," The Islamic Emirate magazine said. "It's not a boulder in the mountain of global finance, no, it's fully one-half of the entire mountain," it said, concluding that the Taliban had triumphed in its struggle with the United States by undermining its economy. go2net.com

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9818)	6/14/2001 2:34:31 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I did not find them "distasteful" -- only erroneous. What you fail to grasp is that I am neither of the "right" nor the "left" -- nor anywhere in-between. I find those labels highly misleading and a perfect example of media and political doublespeak almost lifted en toto from the pages of George Orwell's 1984. The exclusion of blacks was done at the insistence of politically powerful Christian churches. Quite a number of the Founding Fathers -- even those who kept slaves themselves -- were inclined to abolish the practice of slavery in order to form a truly free nation. Their humanity and principles were subverted by the Christian churches -- among the strongest those in Virginia -- through blackmail and threats. The tragedy is they succumbed.