From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Sep 18 2004 - 20:52:46 BST
Ant posted this ZMM quote:
> The newly elected governor was trying to fire the college president for
> both personal and political reasons. The college president was not only a
> personal enemy, he was a Democrat, and the governor was no ordinary
> REPUBLICAN. His campaign manager doubled as state coordinator for the John
> Birch Society. This was the same governor who supplied the list of fifty
> subversives we heard about a few days ago.
Platt responded:
I see where Pirsig correctly qualified what went on by saying the governor
was "no ordinary Republican." Hardly a blanket indictment of all
Republicans, or conservatives, or anyone else who adheres to the
principles of intellectual and individual freedom as set forth in the
U.S. Constitution.
dmb says:
Bullsh*t! The Governor's association with the John Birch society says it
all. He was "no ordinary Republican" and no ordinary conservative because
John Birchers are famous for being VERY Republican and VERY
conservative.(The society offered former KKK members an aura of
respectability and was growing by leaps and bounds in this period.) Ordinary
Republicans in those days were like Ike, but these types are increasingly
rare. There are three or four left and you saw them ALL giving speeches at
the convention. How anyone can believe that Republicans actually stand for
intellectual freedom is beyond me. Republicans have barred doctors from
discussing abortion and banned the teaching of evolution, demand to know
what you buy at the bookstore and suppress scientific findings whenever its
politically inconvenient, banned areas of scientific research that offends
religious sensibilities and a zillion other things. Over and over and over
again, conservatives display fear and contempt toward intellectual freedom.
This so-called bill of rights is just one more example. It has been enacted
here in Colorado for just a short time and it has already led to harrassment
and death threats against liberal professors. I predict that very soon a
biology professor will be fired for rejecting a student's paper on
creationism.
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