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   Message 1,969 of 3,290   
   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: Leaving rasfc   
   28 Apr 09 15:58:00   
   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:43:01 +0100, Graham Woodland   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > James A. Donald wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> The only conservative I have noticed outing himself in   
   >> this group as a conservative is the very far from   
   >> militant Ric Locke, who describes the orthodoxy in this   
   >> group as "stifling" and "Leninist".   
      
   > I don't think many Communists have outed themselves,   
   > either --  the only one we once had has long left for   
   > other pursuits,  finding the atmosphere aggravating and   
   > oppressive.  Which I also  thought was a shame.   
      
   >> Any other conservatives keep their mouths shut and their   
   >> heads down.   
      
   Erol K. Bayburt.   
      
   > Julian's sentiments are often most eloquently conservative, in   
   > one of our best and most time-honoured cispondian veins.   
      
   Indeed.  (And you have now got me thinking of Julian as a   
   transponder.)   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> Who did you have in mind as a militant anti statist   
   >> conservative?   
      
   > I actually had you in mind, and our perspectives on   
   > "fairly  quiet" appear to differ somewhat.  (Predictably,   
   > that is how I  would describe my own level of restraint,   
   > which I guess you'd  describe as inaudible.)   
      
   Yours is sufficient that I was very mildly surprised when I   
   read your blog.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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