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- From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
- Subject: Who was that scary guy?
- Message-ID: <00964014.A8E1EAE0@Msu.oscs.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Montana State University
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:33:18 GMT
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- Hi, Janis, Amy, Al, and other wonderful all and sundry folk.
-
- I'm wondering how often these serious Fundamentalists come on the
- alt.pagan. Every once in a while, I keep seeing some arrogant, pompous
- anonymous someone putting things on the net that are insulting. I don't
- mind debate, but--well, you've probably seen 'em, and have a pretty good idea
- what they're doing. I'm just kinda nervous about it.
-
- I'm just getting paranoid, maybe because I'm still getting the hang of
- this Northwestern thang. Just the other week, I read about a neo-nazi compound
- in Idaho, and how these jokers are seriously thinking about an Aryan Home-
- land. They want Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and, I think, Wyoming.
- (Read it in the Billings Gazette, can probably get quotes if interested.)
- This is coupled with a local guy wanting to buy out a small, recession-hit
- town and become it's mayor. This guy's a very serious Fundamentalist,
- and wants to "work God's will" to save the town. Seems there's at least one
- really scary religion-based thing going on every month, which is really bad
- considering the population of Montana is 750,000.
-
- Yeah, yeah...I'm whimpering to myself again, and it's likely I'll get
- flamed for it . But what I'm wondering is, how far can these people go to
- try and get us? I've read about the Colorado ruling,8*( and I know Seattle
- just barely fought off a measure nearly identical. Exactly how powerful are
- the Religious right in the Northwest? How nervous is justifiably nervous?
-
- Thanks to the person who told me about the
- Practicing tribes; no sign yet, but my eyes
- are open, and I'll be happy and hopeful.
-
- Also thanks for the parenting advice from
- everybody!
-
- La Mort.
-