roundtable: Re: Republicans

roundtable: Re: Republicans

Re: Republicans

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Sat, 4 Feb 1995 00:18:32 +0500 

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 00:18:32 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9502040518.AA17071@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Republicans


I wrote an interrupted letter about this yesterday. Forgive me if it is
redundant.

     Frank - the Republicans are not well-intentioned. You underestimate 
them.  They are a danger to free speech and democracy.

     Conservative is a misnomer. They have used the new technologies
(fax, computeriized hate mail, data banks of donors, synchronized 
mailings of fund requests coupled with diatribes by Helms et al against 
real artists like Serrano and Mapplethorpe) bettre than the Democrats, 
or the rest of us.

     We must change that. This is cultural, intellectual, educational, 
spiritual, artistic, ethical, communications warfare. Make no mistake.  
They are ruthless, and will destroy everything good that this government 
does - from its UN presence to CPB (whatever its faults it's like heaven 
compared to what they will put in its place) to any program that 
actiually helps some human beings, to the NEA to the NEH, to freedom of 
the press to a Supreme Court with any integrity to Surgeon Generals with 
consciences to equal employment opportunities to people with independent 
minds and convictions to school lunches to anti-teen pregnancy programs 
to foreign and domestic birth control programs to any rehabilitation 
programs for prisoners or prospective criminals.

     I'm sorry for this litany, but every single point has been well
verified from at least Nixon on down.

     Now we have Pressler starting an actual McCarthy-era witchhunt
at CPB	by requesting ethnic and religious affiliations of employees. 
Seems like the Nazis and Mussolini did that before they cracked down,
too - all in the name of Christianity and patriotism, of course.

     It's real, folks. It's happening now, right here in America. 
Perhaps it's possible to read too much into their actions and be 
alarmist, but the evidence of the last month is 100% towards the Dark 
Ages - with the exception of having Congress obey American law.

Jeffrey Briggs
jbriggs@capital.edu

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