XPost: ny.politics, nyc.politics, nyc.general 
 From: cup_o_cakes@yahoo.com 
  
 Freedom Fighter wrote: 
 > 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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