Subject: Re: [LPNY ACTIVISTS] Don's rant / Flier attached Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:21:32 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:00:14 -0500, Steve Greenfield =A0(by way of= Don Silberger )" =A0wrote: >=A0=A0=A0LIBERTARIANS: >=A0=A0=A0THIS IS SOME ARROGANT BODY COMING INTO OUR TOWN TO TELL >=A0EVERYBODY HOW TO RUN THEIR LIVES, AND TO FORCE THEIR WILL >=A0UPON US. =A0THEY BELIEVE THEIRS IS THE WILL OF GOD. =A0I THINK= NOT. >=A0=A0=A0THIS IS NO LONGER A QUESTION OF WHETHER GOVERNMENT HAS >=A0OR HAS NOT A PLACE IN MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENTS. =A0A HARASSED >=A0GROUP HAS STEPPED FORWARD TOGETHER OUT OF THE SHADOWS, >=A0AND IT DEMANDS THAT ITS LEGITIMATE RIGHTS BE RECOGNIZED. >=A0=A0=A0I AM MORE THAN SLIGHTLY OUTRAGED THAT THE GROUP OF MORAL >=A0BULLIES WHICH NOW THREATENS TO DESCEND UPON US CALLS ITSELF >=A0THE ``LIBERTY COUNSEL" -- AN ORWELLIAN ABUSE OF LANGUAGE. >=A0=A0=A0IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS MATTER AS ONE IN WHICH LIBERTARIANS >=A0MUST TAKE THE SIDE OF THE GROUP WHOSE RIGHTS ARE DEMANDED >=A0THEN WE LIBERTARIANS AS A COMMUNITY ARE DEEPLY DIVIDED ON >=A0WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. >=A0=A0=A0I WISH TO OFFEND NONE AMONG YOU. =A0BUT NOW MY BLOOD IS UP, >=A0AND I WILL SPEAK MY HEART. >=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0-- DONALD SILBERGER Great . So long as you get across the fundamental Libertarian point= that the State's role in "marriage" is at most the recording of a contract with no change in the entitlements of the those= entering the contract . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Pix+ : .CoSy.MidWinterParty 17 =A0:= http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/03/05 12:18:16 AM