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From: esk@wucs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A brief note
Message-ID: <833@wucs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 18:23:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 18:23:32 1985
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Reply-To: pvt1047@wucec1.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, CS Dept.
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[man the flamethrowers, we're going in!]

From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
> An aspiring sophomore has suggested that Libertarians are hypocrites

Wrong -- see my previous article (from U. Md.).

>      Merely being descended from an oppressed people does not entitle
> anybody to anything

-- he said, as if the person he was replying to had implied anything to the
contrary.  ("*appropriate* descendants" -- emphasis added -- {the context
suggested: i.e., heirs} -- can you say "appropriate", Dan?  I knew you could!)

>      It would be a major improvement in this newsgroup if certain users
> would spend more time in an earnest attempt to get at the truth, and less
> time practicing demagoguery.

-- Or if certain users would take more care interpreting what they reply to,
and spent more time learning how to understand political humor.  
"Libertarians -- second only to feminists in the sense-of-humor category."
				   :->       :-<
				    ^	      ^
				    |         |
	 (with apologies to feminists)       (but not to libertarians)
--Paul V Torek, ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047