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- From: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Watters)
- Subject: Re: A question about Stephen M. Conley
- Reply-To: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:49:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.827948@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- Lee Crocker:
- >>Alas, to my great disappointment, even the Libertarians are getting
- >>soft. Last week, the National Commmittee finally voted to eliminate
- >>the oath, to allow candidates to use matching funds, and to support
- >>"practical interim legislation consistent with libertarian goals",
- >>even if that means voting for tax reform instead of elimination.
-
- Who was it who said that "politics is the art of the possible"? Since you're
- not going to get tax elimination next week, you might as well encourage
- reform until then.
-
- Getting vaguely back to the newsgroup's topic, BiONIC, the UK bisexual
- political activism group included "the end of capitalism" in a set of aims.
- Now I can live with that, but I wonder what BiONIC is going to do *after*
- next Tuesday... <grin>
-
- >>I threw away my "Libertarians: The Party of Principle" button.
-
- Principles and pragmatism are not incompatible. But I am surprised at the
- dropping of the "non-violence" oath.
- ---
- iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk | Hon Secretary of the London Bisexual Group
- | c/o BM BI, London, Great Britain WC1N 3XX
- << Never mind the LBG, *I* disagree with everything here, including this >>
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