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In Newsgroup balt.config, James H Whittemore (synchro1@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>)In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960524102016.10580D-100000@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
>)Konrad Vandegaer <konradv@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> writes: 
>)>
>)>
>)>
>)>On 24 May 1996, James H Whittemore wrote:
>)>> baltimore music scene could use a little activism. When I look at
>)the
>)>> listing of new newsgroups every week, I am sure the majority of them
>)>> were also created without "official" sanction from the Bandwidth
>)>> Protectors of the Internet (liberal cry for the 90s - Save the
>)>> Bandwidth!). 
>)>
>)>  And anything I don't agree with is automatically "liberal" even
>)>  when it's trying to conserve something. Nice double-talk. Stick
>)>  to music, please.
>)>
>)>  Konrad Vandegaer 
>)Sorry, I was not trying to use "liberal" in a derogatory sense. It was
>)meant to be self-deprecating more than anything, since I am extremely
>)liberal in my political views.  Another example of how written
>)communication often conveys unintended messages when used in a
>)conversational style.

	Self-derogating perhaps, but very true. As a Liberal member of 
the Internet, you're probably aware that Liberal in the US equals 
socialist in almost any other country on the planet...and the cry, which 
you apparently disagree with(as do I) of "save the bandwidth" is a 
"Centralize the Management" cry which fits right in with that general 
theme. 

	He's right to imply, though, that terms like Liberal and 
Conservative are mis-used...which is why I capitalize them consistently. 
They have become titles which more often than not mean the opposite of 
what they're supposed to mean. One could call environmentalism a form of 
conservatism...one certainly cannot call the onerous laws restricting 
individual freedom to allegedly protect the environment liberal laws. 

	Not only does conservative mean to protect the status quo, 
conserving it, but liberal means to protect individual freedom. With the 
Conservatives attacking the status quo and claiming in their rhetoric to 
want to shatter it completely, they are far from conservative, while 
there's nothing liberal about any law which takes away personal freedom 
of choice, as the Liberal platform generally espouses on each issue. 

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