Re: The debate

From: Phyllis (phyllisnilsson_at_buckeye-express.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:03:50 -0400

How we got from being disrespectful to the president to shredding the
Bill of Rights is rather a leap isn't it?

14tonks wrote:
> Okay, everyone on this group will apologize publicly for using current
> nicknames and epithets for U.S. Presidents in newsgroup posts, and will
> cease and desist immediately. We will start with all of those who referred
> to the previous President as Slick Willie, etc.
>
> I guess now people are no longer even allowed to vent their frustrations
> with our politicians and political system that way, there is nothing more
> left to do but have a bonfire fueled with the remaining shreds of the Bill
> of Rights, freedom of speech, free press, etc., and march in lockstep to the
> funeral of the American dream with the right-wing New World Order.
>
> Sieg Heil. (And that ends this thread.)

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