I wasn't the one who made the strange comment about Daschle and I certainly don't advocate assassination as a solution to ANY problem in American politics. But I also strongly urge folks not to take Sen. Daschle's very calculated ravings at face value. He has a nasty personal agenda. The answer is easy: Every time he--or ANYONE--throws out unsubstantiated manure like this, just say "Show us the proof. Give us some examples." Watch them go "Aaahh .... g ...duh ... I ... uh.. well ..." In Daschle's case, he simply doesn't like anyone criticizing him or his motives so he seeks to misdirect his supporters and slander his detractors--but in a sad, quiet, "concerned" kind of way. It's an old technique of his and he works it to perfection. Sorry, list. I'll try to keep quiet. But, as they say, hold on to your hats because things are going to get extremely ugly after New Year's--it will be tongue and claw in congress and in the press, guaranteed. Sad. And Susan, God love you but I have to ask a question like I suggested above: "What right-wing outrage?" One or two radical stray comments does not make a national movement. And it's the left-wing that got blitzed in the elections ... they are the ones all bent out of shape these days, it seems to me. Want to hear some real outrage and raving? I direct you to James Carville, Terry McAuliffe, Alec Baldwin (who actually did publicly advocate the murder of Republicans, specifically to lynch Henry Hyde and his entire family), the "mourners" at the memorial for Sen. Wellstone, etc. Ugly is ugly. Truth is truth. Alan Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: WAY OT : Do you have any understanding of my rights as anAmericancitizen? > At 09:15 PM 11/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Now it seems someone is advocating the murder of U.S. Senators. I'm > >sitting here wondering just what to say. I'm shocked to grossly understate. > > I was shocked by that, as well. If it was a joke, it was in singularly bad > taste. I watched Sen. Daschle getting interviewed on C-Span today, and he > said that whenever certain issues come up, and the radio talk-show > right-wing people get rolling with it, the number of direct physical > threats he and his family receive skyrocket. He says that the problem is > that people are using politics as entertainment, and when the commentators > get so emotional about it, people feel the need to actually do something > violent about it. > > If people get enough reinforcement for this right-wing outrage, they start > believing that it is normal (or even "American") to feel this violent about > politics, and to physically threaten people because of it. > > I'm reminded once again that our technology has made drastic changes in our > lives within living memory, while the capacity to adjust to it may take a > few hundred years, or even longer. What happens to people who evolved > (uh-oh, there's another hot word) for millennia to live in small groups > almost without artificial light, eating mainly unprocessed food which was > in short supply for much of the year, and walking around a lot in the > normal course of finding it ... [stop for breath] when they now have bright > 18 hour daylengths year around, drive everywhere, watch TV and listen to > the radio constantly, are exposed to crowds of strangers all the time, and > eat processed, dense food full of substances which didn't even exist a few > years ago? Oh, and write and read political flames on a technical list? > > Perhaps the answer is that they get fat, irritated, and angry, and fly off > the handle a lot? And the kids get Type II diabetes 35 years ahead of time. > > (Conrad, where's that suit you were going to send me?) > > susan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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