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From: ray@rochester.ARPA (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: RE. Scopes II
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 09:47:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 09:47:30 1986
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In article <2041@mtgzz.UUCP>, eme@mtgzz.UUCP (e.m.eades) writes:
> 
> Ray now you are getting ridiculous.  Its easy to lose freedoms alittle bit
> at a time, they slowly get erroded away.  Remember, Hitler was an elected
> official and the Germany government voted away their democracy for a
> dictatorship.  Alittle paranoia about our freedoms keeps us alert.  We
> are the ones who are the checks on our government.
> 
> -Beth Eades

A little paranoia is good.  Too bad we don't have just a little paranoia.
What we do have is a lot of paranoia.  Why aren't people paranoid about
other things such as abortions?  Killing an unborn child or a child that will
be born deformed could lead to societies killing of what they deem to be 
worthless lives such as old people or mentally or physically handicapped 
people.  Sounds like selective, self serving paranoia to me.  I can sound just
as paranoid as some of these other people, ie, eliminating prayers in school
will lead to children becoming atheists, or the use of sexually oriented 
television programming will lead our children in promiscuity, or the use
of violence in movies and television will lead to a greater crime rate, etc.

ray