Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:03:43 -0700 From: quag7@frostwarning.com (Rex Iscariot) Subject: Re: [lpaz-discuss] Disspelling rumors To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
At 10:42 PM 3/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>To those who believe in absolutely no concessions:
>
>There has been a lot of talk lately about Gun Owners of America and whether
>they are going through a shift in philosophy. I just got off the phone with
>Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America. We had a nice
>talk about what is happening and Larry was straightforward in his response
>to your concerns that GOA is going to go down the path of compromise in
>order to "gain some ground."
If this is the full story, it's going to be awfully disappointing to people awaiting the rush from ostracizing and exorcising people for straying from ideological orthodoxy.
I mean, you do a lot of people a disservice by sending this to the list; after all, you're robbing people of their snse of superiority, and most of all the camaraderie of sharing a good smug-fest with the already converted. I mean, from the posts here you could tell people were already jumping to conclusions about GOA and salivating in anticipation of exorcising them from from the Arizona Libertarian clique.
Being a libertarian has never been about ending drug wars, fighting tyranny and coercion, and shrugging off the corrosive and morally corrupt skullduggery of collectivists. If I've learned anything from beig a Libertarian Party member for 10 years, being a libertarian is *really* about the euphoria found buried deep in the strange combination of being ideologically pure and tolerating nothing less in anyone else, while on the other hand having absolutely no influence in the world at all.
I guess now I'm not going to be able to sit here with 10 other libertarians in a darkened room reading Vin Suprynowicz columns and feeling superior to GOA.
Shit, life is tough. But that's okay, comrades, we'll find other counter-revolutionaries straying from the One True Path to expose. It's just a matter of time.
-Rex
Rex Iscariot <quag7@frostwarning.com> - Tucson, Arizona - USAhttp://www.frostwarning.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS - 1980's BBS Scene List
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