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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Are you a millionaire ?
Date: 22 Jul 2002 05:39:30 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>So... in return for receiving financing and support from an 
>organization, he had to agree to act as a member of that organization by 
>supporting its goals & accepting the decisions of those who were in 
>charge of the organization.
>
>Those evil Republicans -- to think that they'd act like...
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>
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>any other damn organization on the entire planet or elsewhere, including 
>the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, Emily's List, the John 
>Birch Society, the Rangers, the Shadows, the Vorlons, (obligatory B5 
>references), and even the Democratic Party...

But they were not acting like republicans.  The primaries were still in effect.
 Both individuals, McCain and Bush, were republicans, both running for the
nomination of their party.  But the party hierarchy decided *in advance of
hearing the will of the people* that they would ONLY support Bush, and used
economic blackmail to force the issue.

Is that what Republicans stand for?  I somehow doubt the rank and file
civilians out there would cotten to it.  

And the comparison to the Elks and the other groups is specious, one is a
political party, the others are not.  We are talking about the acts of one of
the two parties that control the electoral fate of the country; let's keep this
an apples-and-apples discussion, not apples and oranges.

>Okay, Joe, this is easy to demonstrate ;-)  -- according to this 
>standard, the next time the Writer's Guild walks out you should just 
>keep working in the marketplace of free ideas...

And here you just shoot yourself in the foot, because the WGA is about the
least organized organization in the world.  Further, a walkout has to do with
economic issues and contracts up for renewal; the Republican issue has to do
with elections and the fate of a nation that at least nominally is about fair
play between two candidates.

See the part above about apples and oranges.

 jms

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