Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!riddle From: riddle@im4u.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Censorship ("LIBERALS BIG ON CENSORSHIP") Message-ID: <452@im4u.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 09:59:30 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.452 Posted: Fri Aug 23 09:59:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:31:59 EDT References: <91@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 32 Aint-No-Liberal: "Bob" In article <91@decwrl.UUCP> black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK) writes: > > For all of you who fear censorship by the "Extreme Right," here's a >few examples of what we can expect from the our dear friends on the Left. > ... >"LIBERALS BIG ON CENSORSHIP" And what, pray tell, do "rioting Marxist demonstrators" in Ontario, a court in Murmansk, USSR, or Zionists in Oberammergau or the U.S. have to do with "liberals"? Most of the Marxists I know would hit you if you accused them of being "liberal," and most of the liberals I know don't like Zionism much more than you do (although they don't usually combine it with anti-Semitism). Of the examples you cited, the only one which *might* be a case of censorship by a "liberal" was the sentencing of the fellow in Alabama not to speak in public on abortion for five years (and given the inconsistency of the rest of your article, I can't help but wonder if you're telling us the whole story). It seems to me that a number of "liberal" organizations -- like the American Civil Liberties Union -- have been taking pretty courageous stands defending the rights of people with views like yours to express them freely. I am also thinking of a case right here in Austin, Texas, where some minority activists are absolutely furious with our "liberal" City Council for letting the KKK march -- at a huge cost for police protection, I might add. The "liberals" are bending over backwards for you, Don. You ought to be thanking them for it. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech}!ut-sally!riddle riddle@ut-sally.UUCP --- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sally