From: TURTLE              
To: ALL                 
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Date & Time: 09/14/90 02:56:55
Message Number  8837

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Date: 08 Sep 90 12:48
From: Chris Grant
To: All

America's Funniest Home Videos presents...WEEKEND AT CLUB FLED!
There's Noriega and Marcos, hamming for the camera...and look!
Pinochet on the rooftop, what a silly boy. And the deposed royalty of
several dozen MidEast nations...what for are they here? Because they
represent a system of government that has no place in modern times? Nah..
for the last 200 years, everyone's loved royalists, right, Mr. Washington?

Hey, take a look. Communism, pah. America, believe it or not, comes
closest to any Communist role model--at least in the early years. Think
about it--a government of The People..for The People..BY THE PEOPLE.
Anyone can become president. A leader is elected by popular mandate.
America was founded on the ideas of individual freedom and rights and
liberty--government interventionism was rebuked.

Now we have self-righteous Pharisees running about burning books and
records that are "of the devil". They do not hold up to their twisted
ideas of "Christianity". When was the last time bands of toughs roamed
streets and burned "subversive" material in the name of the Greater
Good. A hint: "Heute Detschland, am Morgens die Welt! SIEG HEIL!"

Wasn't religious and governmental persecution the original drive
behind the American rebellion? A system of kings telling Americans how to
run their lives? They wrapped that up in the church as well, to make it
seem like thay had divine backing.

The Soviet Union is closer to America's original goals than America
is. As the gov't encroaches more and more upon our lives, the
pressure to conform is obvious. America was not about conformity. It was
about breaking away, setting new rules... It used to be about individual
initiative and drive and courage, now it's "don't rock the boat, be like
the rest".

And now, the American poor is going to supply the blood for the
princes' baths. While the gov't tells us, "it's okay, it's for the
Greater Good".

Sieg Heil.