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To: Dale Baker who wrote (131413)	2/25/2010 9:53:49 AM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540749

This will be my last comment on this - sorry to drag on about this - "Those who want to devolve to the screaming, frothing fringe are on their own. They hurt our political process...." Sure, but those people are on all sides of every issue. A sub-section of every political or social organization probably misbehaves. I think it is appropriate to deal with individuals that misbehave - like you do with bad people on your threads. What I think is inappropriate is to ridicule or otherwise act negatively toward entire large groups of people because some members acted badly or said something bad in the past. If we used that standard, nobody would be exempt because we are all members of some group that may have some members that may have done something inappropriate or impolite. Should we ridicule all Moslems because some do bad things? Of course not!