XPost: soc.culture.scottish, alt.politics.british, uk.local.london   
   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "Robert Peffers."  wrote in message   
   news:9Jmdnbi1DuKP3sLbnZ2dnUVZ8ternZ2d@bt.com...   
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   > "Cory Bhreckan"  wrote in message   
   > news:dhF7i.4002$aW5.3372@trndny09...   
   >> Conway Caine wrote:   
   >>>  wrote in message news:465ee603@quokka.wn.com.au...   
   >>>> "Conway Caine"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:0%Z6i.36888$Sa4.35163@bgtnsc05-   
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   >>>>   
   >>>>>> I loathe the communist doctrine myself - I'd rather be desperate and   
   >>>>>> free any day.   
   >>>>> Your name has been submitted to  the Queensland UnAussie Activities   
   >>>>> Committee.   
   >>>>> Back to NZ with you, you pinko ponce.....   
   >>>> You seem to be confused again Conway.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not at all.   
   >>> I was gently sticking it to Adam.   
   >>   
   >> You *do* know who you're replying to don't you?   
   >>   
   >>> The trouble with AWS is that you never really know where in the spectrum   
   >>> he falls.   
   >>> Is he an arch conservative?   
   >>> Is he to the left of Marx and Engles?   
   >>> Does he really give a rat's arse about any of it?   
   >>> With The Wonderful One, you just don't know.   
   >>>   
   >>>> The tide here is actually swinging way to the left - mainly as a result   
   >>>> of Howard's support for the neocons fake 'war'.   
   >>>> I don't see any irony there myself - serves the servile bastard right.   
   >>>> The Socialists are now an unprecedented 20 points ahead in the polls   
   >>>> after Howards right-wingers have been in power for 11 years.   
   >>>> I suppose that means we have something to be gratefull to Bush for at   
   >>>> least. Like the Al Queda recruiting officers - they never could have   
   >>>> done it without him.   
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   >>   
   >> --   
   >> "For the stronger we our houses do build,   
   >> The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall   
   > Actually the political spectrum is a circle, so if you swing too far to   
   > either left or right you come back to where you started. In any case too   
   > far right is every bit as evil as too far left. It does not require an   
   > Einstein to realise that the right discriminates against the poorest and   
   > weakest in the society where it operates and the extreme right carries   
   > this to the extent that is starves people to death or leaves them to die   
   > for want life's basics. The left discriminates against the very rich and,   
   > if taken to extremes, it drives them away and they may well be the people   
   > who drive the economy. Thus both extremes are evil in the extreme. The   
   > trouble is that the exact centre falls between both fires and nothing ever   
   > gets done. Thus the best is slightly left of centre with enough socialism   
   > to care for the poor, sick and disabled without penalising the rich to the   
   > extent that they can find pastures new that are better for them.   
      
   An excellent summary, Mister Peffers.   
   I am impressed.   
   Extremism is indeed the curse of Mankind, where ever extremism is to be   
   found.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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