on 1/2/05 6:43 PM, actionforum(a)comcast.net at actionforum(a)comcast.net wrote:
Well, If I see
a 3RR violation on a page I'm editing I'll post it on WP:AN
instead of acting on it myself.
AndyL
Thanx, I will assume good faith.
BTW, Barry Goldwater also co-sponsored (along with Sen. Mark Hatfield) in
1968, the bill to end the draft. He was a conservative of the classical
liberal vein (at least at that time). On civil rights, he probably feared
that the bill might result in discriminatory quotas. Two wrongs don't make a
right.
Mmm... I think he was trying to woo Southern conservative (Dixiecrat) voters
away from the Democrats, actually. I do generally like Goldwater (though I
don't agree with most of his views), definitely more principled than Nixon
and Reagan (both of whom he despised btw). The Civil Rights Act (I think I
got the name wrong, Voting Rights Act?) had nothing about quotas, it just
guaranteed Blacks the right to vote in states where measures such as the
poll tax (which only Blacks had to pay) and intimidation were used to stop
them from voting. Something anyone who truly believed in the "defense of
liberty" should have had no trouble supporting.
Andy
-- Silverback
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