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- From: paulo@ohmeda.com (Paul E. Ourada)
- Subject: Re: Amnd.2 Boycott is Counterproductive.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.174155.14841@ohmeda.com>
- Keywords: amendment 2
- Organization: Ohmeda Monitoring Systems
- References: <1993Jan21.060045.16768@colorado.edu>
- Distribution: co
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:41:55 GMT
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- kooros@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Paul T. Kooros) writes:
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- > IMHO, Coloradans seeking to advance the "Boycott Colorado" movement
- >are misguided. They are contributing to a self-destructive anti-productive
- >movement which itself practices discrimination, targets for vengeance
- >harmless groups, and fails to target culprit groups. The movement's focus
- >is on the collective punishment of "Colorado" (a practice forbidden governments
- >by the Geneva and Hague conventions), and offers joining individuals the
- >self-indulgent relief of their consciences. This, rather than address
- >rectifying the situation. Let me explain myself:
-
- >Analysis:
- >---------
- > Amendment 2 failed in non-military, non-rural colorado. This
-
- An interesting aside is that The Prez just signed an Executive Order that
- essentially tells the military to stop the gay discrimination. Will
- be interesting to see how long it takes to sink in...
-
- Paul Ourada
- paulo@ohmeda.com
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