How RIGHT do you have to be before you are WRONG?

If you plan to vote republican, what I'd like to know is who you have in your crosshairs this wee  Is it gays and lesbians you want to segregate from the rest of society or exterminate?  Is it blacks, Orientals or Hpanics whom you do not like because of their skin color, language, diction or other differences?  Is it doctors who perform legal abortions?  Maybe it is even the President of the United States who you view as a sinning lier and advocate of a pregnant woman's right to make her own choice about abortion after consulting with her husband, doctor, minister and god?

A recent Southern Poverty Law Center release states:

   Hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and antigovernment "Patriot" 
   organizations increasingly are taking up the banner of violence 
   anti-abortion extremism, according to the latest issue of the Center's 
   Intelligence Report. Old-line white supremacists and anti-Semites are 
   hailing Eric Rudolph, the accused bomber of a Birmingham, Ala., women's 
   clinic, as a folk hero. Klan and neo-Nazi groups have been calling for 
   the "death penalty" for all those involved in abortion -- patients, 
   doctors and clinic operators. Many militias and other "Patriot" groups 
   have adopted violent anti-abortion rhetoric. 

   In addition to an in-depth look at this dangerous ideological 
   convergence, the Summer 1998 issue of the Intelligence Report, the 
   Center's quarterly survey of the activities of the radical right, 
   includes interviews with Emily Lyons, the nurse who was maimed in the 
   January 29 Birmingham bombing, and Felecia Sanderson, the widow of the 
   police officer slain in the same attack.


The FBI 
recently offered a $1-million dollar reward for Eric Rudolph's 
head after linking him to the bombing of a women's clinic in 
Montgomery, Alabama and the earlier bombings of an abortion 
clinic in Atlanta (Jan. 16, 1997), the attempted bombing of a gay 
bar in Atlanta (Feb. 21, 1997) and the Centennial Olympics Park 
bombing (July 27, 1996). 

Hey, I sure could use that million bucks, if you happen to 
know where Rudolph is hanging out, and don't want to turn him in 
because you are his buddy and fear retaliation, send me the info. 
via e-mail.  I'll forward it to the FBI and split the reward! 


Now some will say I'm just out to make a quick buck.  But 
really I'm very concerned about the direction politics is taking 
in this country.  More and more RIGHT WINGers are taking up arms 
and bombs to express their frustrations instead of going to the 
voting booth.  I suppose it may be because they know how to pull 
a trigger but haven't yet figured out you have to pull the lever 
after marking you ballot on those new electronic voting machines 
many states are now using. 

What is the solution?  Perhaps a greater effort has to be spent 
teaching tolerence.
Although it may not make a difference in the case 
of Eric Rudolph and the Timoth McVeighs of this world, it may 
help prevent our children from idolizing these hate mongers and 
growing up to be like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin or George C. Wallace. 

Yes, I know most republicans are a far cry from these bigots and 
genocide monsters.  Yet when you start hating people because of 
their race, religion, ethnic or national origin; when you start 
hating people because of their sex, disability or sexual 
orientation; when you start hating people because of their views 
on abortion or other beliefs, and when you combine that with a 
love for seeing things die as a result of bullets and bombs, it 
is not long before you have a so called skinhead and 
Army of God groups marching forth to destroy everything and 
everyone in sight it does not like.  Already there are anarchist 
sites on the internet where you can learn how to make bombs and explosives.  Plus our children can learn anything 
they want to learn about guns and firearms!

Only if we begin today to end segregation in our schools, churches and other social 
organizations and institutions can we hope to restore that idea 
that each person has a right to their own life, liberty and 
pursuit of happiness expressed by the Declaration of Independence 
and secured by the Bill of Rights. 

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