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To: TimF who wrote (11901)	5/3/2002 8:21:47 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Wayne LaPierre's comments aren't exactly like ... Cynthia McKinney's but they are wrong. They are very much like those who call people who disagree with them Nazis. In this case bin Laden replaces Hitler but the whole type of argument is the same and it isn't one based on rational thought. I might agree, especially over the lack of rational thought - but I've no idea who C McK is, so your gratuitous slur effectively renders your post as partisan scoring and hence wasted. Your excusing of even the most egregiously dangerous stances in this fashion just proves my point below, IMO. Without any help, prompting or relevance, you seek to excuse or mitigate a truly moronic and repellent stance - for RWE PC purposes, there can be no other - by referring to someone else. "Oh, this is idiocy from an approved mouth - I must make it 'valid' by alleging someone else's idiocy". If by "take the party line" you mean that I will be against gun control then you are right No, I mean you will argue whichever line is the current Republican Pravda. Four legs good, two legs bad. Wayne LaPierre's comments aren't exactly like (and in my opinion are not quite as bad as) Cynthia McKinney's As above. Duh? Why try and justify the bigot? Someone else, whoever she is, saying something moronic - does not justify his bigotry. Savvy? But feel free to link to any recent (post Nov 1999) contemporaneous examples of your independence from the central committee line, as it were - show that you thought and said differently, at the time - and I'll apologise and concede you have (had) the capability for independent thought.