On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > This is a false equivocation though. Just because neither is entirely > innocent does not mean that both are equally guilty. When, in 2001, > the government issued a report entitled "Left-wing Extremism: the > current threat" people from the left by and large agreed. The ALF and > ELF were doing dangerous shit and they need to be watched. Now, in > 2009, the government issues a report entitled "Right-win Extremism: > the current threat" and people on the right are howling. > > These things are not equal and no amount of cherry picking incidents > from the fringes will make it so > Its kind of funny that you and Larry are rushing to defend the 'left' from what I said. Re-read what I wrote. Larry made a generalized comment about extreme right wing hypocrisy. I was merely pointing out that the extreme left can be equally as hypocritical. I never stated that it was the case in this particular issue - just in general neither is innocnet nor holds a monoploy on being hypocritical. . That being said, why was it a bad thing to target liberal groups this way, but when the same methods target conservative groups its 'ok' or they are 'getting what they deserve'? All I have seen from our liberal friends on this list is how the 'right wing' groups are getting what they asked for. If it was wrong for liberal groups to be targeted this way, it is wrong for conservative (or any other type of) groups to be targeted this way as well. Let's be consistent in our outrage and not our hypocrisy. -- Scott Stroz --------------- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295122 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
