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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.politics,can.politics
Subject: The McGeer Connection (heavy mudslinging)
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 20:13:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 20:13:46 1985
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

Subtitle (for can.politics readers): Son Of Intellectual Sleaze
Warning: heavy ad hominem follows

     I am not even a net.politics reader, but I have seen Rick McGeer's ravings
on other people's accounts and I can keep SILENT NO LONGER!!

In article <10652@ucbvax.ARPA> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>             ...  I lived in British Columbia most of my life, including the
>three years it was under the NDP: BC still hasn't fully recovered from the
>ravages of the Barrett government....

     A short course in 70's BC politics.  BC was run for many years under a man
named Wacky Bennett.  His party was Social Credit (the Socreds for short), a
party founded by one Bible Bill Eberhart.  (This is just to give you some idea
of what BC politics is like.)  In 1972 the BC voters got fed up with Wacky
and elected an NDP (New Democratic Party) government.  These people were pretty
darn incompetent I must admit, not due to their socialism but due to the fact
that none of them had ever seen a government office before.
     In 1975, the Socreds got their act together again under the leadership of
Wacky's son Bill.  They got what amounted to a coalition government in the
election, due to the defection of many senior people from the middle-of-the-
road Liberal party.  Chief among these was a university professor named Pat
McGeer, who during his ten years of university management with Bill Bennett
has presided over the immense loss of prestige and professors from BC's
universities.  McGeer and the other Socreds have kept in government lo these
many years, by hounding the brainless BC electorate with the memory of the
failures of the NDP.
     Perhaps our own Rick McGeer could comment on his relationship with this
highly-respected politician whom the university students have always greeted
with the warm phrase "Stick it in your ear, McGeer."  Certainly his laughable
comments sound very familiar indeed.

>                               ...  I know socialism is dangerous, just as
>an East European knows it's dangerous....

     Anyone who thinks the NDP are like East European communists is not
sufficiently in touch with reality to make any coherent comments on the
subject, especially if he has such immense CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

     --Jamie.