----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Dondero Rittberg To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:39 PM Subject: [Libertarian] Moderator intervention
There is someone on this List who repeatedly refers to George W. Bush as a "Nazi." How would everyone here feel if I continually referred to Michael Badnarik as a "Nazi." I respectfully request that the individual involved be asked not to use that term in describing the President of the United States. If you allow this to continue I am well within my rights to accuse Michael Badnarik of being a Nazi. . Perhaps you should take this up with your friend George Will, who in one election year, apparently fearing the LP might cost the Republican a half point or so, wrote an article referring to the Libertarian Presidential candidate as follows: "Some people describe Andre Marrou as sort of a cheerful Lenin, he isn't...cheerful, that is." So, to my mind, if someone wants to call George Will's master a Nazi, then that is merely fair play. I happen to think both descriptions are wrong, but I seem to have missed the apology and reevaluation you should have forced out of George Will by now. And I also think that George Bush holding the office of president requires us to respect him just as much as we respect any other person. He is commander-in-chief of the military, but he is a mere servant of the citizens as a whole. Your puerile attempt to insinuate that Bush being our servant-in-chief means we have to restrain ourselves from using objectionable terms to describe him is not merely anti-libertarian, it is even anti-republican (small "r"). You might as well start awarding titles of nobility. I usually end up defending Bush because so many attacks made on him are on ridiculous grounds, but to demand some sort of artificially derived respect for him is really offensive. Michael Burns [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
