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 From: liberty@once.net 
  
 CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST 
  
 It all began a hundred thousand years ago on a ledge in front of a cave. A 
 female homo sapiens walked by, attracting the attention of a male. The male 
 stepped forward and smacked her over the head with his club. WHACK! He then 
 dragged the unconscious female into his cave for sex. 
  
 One day there were two males standing in front of a cave when a female 
 walked by. The first raised his arm to club the female, but the second male 
 communicated to him that clubbing females over the head to have sex was not 
 nice. WHACK! WHACK! The first male stepped over the unconscious second male 
 and proceeded to rape the female. On that day the first liberal paid the 
 price for expressing a new idea. 
  
 Things didn't change much for thousands of years until the advent of 
 projectile weapons. This was first symbolized by the David and Goliath story 
 in the Bible, where the big strong brute was laid flat by the small but 
 smarter boy. Once brute strength was no longer the controlling factor in 
 social interaction, liberal ideas slowly gained a foothold in human culture, 
 and civilization began. 
  
 Throughout human history, the price for advocating tolerance and progressive 
 change has been paid in threats, beatings, excommunication, incarceration, 
 torture, murder, assassination, and execution. Countless liberals have paid 
 the ultimate price for their humanity. Though Jesus Christ is the most 
 famous, names in recent history that come to mind are Gandhi, Martin Luther 
 King Jr., John Lennon, and Robert Kennedy. 
  
 Today there are many conservatives - individuals, groups, and nations - who 
 use threats and violence to silence the voices of reason, tolerance, and 
 progress. Here in America it is seen in racists and homophobes beating 
 blacks and gays, sometimes to death, not for money or out of anger generated 
 by interactive cause, but because of religious or racial intolerance and 
 secular bigotry. 
  
 Alan Berg on talk radio was a strong voice against a conservative 
 organization called the Aryan Nation. For thus exercising his freedom of 
 speech, he was shot dead while walking his dog in front of his house. 
  
 David Rice is a man on death row in Washington State who has no remorse 
 whatsoever for entering the home of a family of four and carving out their 
 living hearts only because he heard they were "liberals." He got their names 
 from a Democratic Party membership list. 
  
 Right-wingers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 men, women, and 
 children as an act of protest. What liberals have ever committed such an 
 abominable atrocity? 
  
 The most abominable atrocity in several decades is the 9/11 terrorist 
 attacks upon America. Thousands of innocent civilians were murdered. The 
 perpetrator, Osama Bin Laden and the al Qaeda-Taliban terrorists, epitomize 
 the right-wing religious fundamentalist mentality. 
  
 Arguing that such horrendous crimes are not political in nature or that they 
 are not done primarily by conservatives is utter nonsense. Look back: 
  
 Who nailed who to a cross? 
  
 Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of King George? 
  
 Who started our Civil War to defend slavery? 
  
 Who fought to keep women as property, and now fights their sovereignty over 
 their own bodies in the freedom to choose abortion? 
  
 Who fought against child labor statutes? 
  
 Who fought against the concept of free public education? 
  
 Who fought against the right of women to vote? 
  
 Who fought against anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation? 
  
 Who fought against workers organizing? 
  
 Who fought against government controls on manufacturers of cars "unsafe at 
 any speed?" 
  
 Who killed several thousand innocent civilians in the 9/11 terrorist 
 attacks? 
  
 Who started WW2, murdered 13 million and caused the death of 40 million 
 more? 
  
 Who defended Jim Crow for a hundred years? 
  
 Who fought against voting rights, civil rights, social security, health care 
 for the elderly, and minimum wages? 
  
 Who fights against environmental protection statutes? 
  
 Who opposes equal rights for gays and other free-lifestyle minorities? 
  
 Who cruelly opposes physician-assisted dying for suffering, terminally ill 
 patients soon to die anyway? 
  
 Who is sabotaging the separation of Church and State, and all our other 
 Constitutional rights, freedoms, and protections? 
  
 Who are the moralizing hypocrites forcing their puritanical inhibitions and 
 prohibitions on ALL Americans via legislation and draconian, police-state 
 enforcement practices? 
  
 Who always puts personal gain and corporate wealth and power above the 
 common good? 
  
 CONSERVATIVES OR LIBERALS? 
  
 The historic, undeniable truth is that these evils are THE NATURE OF THE 
 CONSERVATIVE BEAST! 
  
 Conservatives have distorted and demonized the word "liberal," whose true 
 political meaning is favoring progressive change, humanistic values, and 
 opposition to authoritarianism. They identify it with governmental waste and 
 tolerance of criminality, when in fact they themselves are guilty of abuses 
 such as corporate welfare bail-outs and tax evasion, fraud against 
 investors, and other white-collar crime. Conservatives fear and oppose all 
 change and progress beyond "what's in it for me?" 
  
 At the core of conservatism is the Machiavellian bully - the despotic 
 practitioner of "might makes right," craving wealth and power, and willing 
 to use any and all means to get them. Conservatism is the philosophy of the 
 caveman wearing a business suit. 
  
 AND THE CAVEMENS' CLUBS CAN NOW DESTROY OUR EARTH! 
  
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