RE: Re: J. Bove says it's Mossad that bombs synagogues in France

["michael pugliese" <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   duh. gee, the weekly standard is a rightist rag, you say!
why, i had no idea, lou! unlike you, that anathematizes new left
review editors, against the current, the nation editors, in these
times and nacla and new politics for printing that evil kautskyite,
(see the massimo salvadori book from verso on Comrade K.) I've
read widely from far left to far right since high school. None
Dare Call It Reason Pugliese ;-) --- original message ---
>From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: 5/8/02 11:20:15 AM
>

>>http://www.weeklystandard.com/
>>http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/001/187bvgea.
>asp
>>...France has laws against Holocaust denial. The current climate
shows
>them to
>>be bad laws, not just because they make free-speech heroes
of those who are
>>basically mentally ill, but because they can be violated in
spirit with
>>impunity. Such a violation was committed by Jose Bove in the
first days of
>>April, when he was expelled from Israel following a visit to
Yasser Arafat's
>>compound in Ramallah.
>
>http://www.weeklystandard.com/aboutus/default.asp
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>Masthead
>Editorial Staff
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>William Kristol
>Editor
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>Fred Barnes  [ EMAIL ]
>Executive Editor
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>The New York Times, June 27, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final

>
>A Conservative Cheerfully Argues That 'Family Values' Has a
Future
>
>By ROBIN TONER
>
>So why should we care about values issues after the 1992 campaign,
after
>the Murphy Brown imbroglio and the backlash to the Republican
National
>Convention? Haven't the liberals basically won on issues like
abortion?
>Shouldn't we all just settle down and talk about the economy?

>
>"To the contrary," says William Kristol, former chief of staff
to Vice
>President Dan Quayle, now a conservative strategist trying to
chart the
>movement's future. "Despite the clumsiness with which those
issues were
>raised in 1992, the fact is that values issues -- to use your
phrase -- are
>back stronger than ever." He is sitting in his modest Washington
office
>preparing to head off to the National Right to Life Committee's
convention
>in Milwaukee later in the week, and other stops on the conservative
>circuit. He sees numerous signs that the politics of values
is alive and
>kicking.
>
>He is presently the director of the Bradley Project on the 90's,
a
>conservative think tank. He has a vision of conservatives as
the
>counter-culture, the renegades, taking on the chillingly P.C.,
>liberal-dominated bureaucracies and crashing through for the
people.
>
>But whose values are the true values of the people? The Republican
Party's
>platform on abortion, which would effectively outlaw the practice,
is very
>much a minority view, according to public opinion polls.
>
>"Insofar as the pro-abortion agenda is not just to make it legal,
but to
>remove all stigma from it, to make it not just a right but right,
I think
>that's not going to happen," he says. "And it shouldn't happen.
The
>unfettered right to abortion -- if you think it through -- is
based on the
>notion that the right to abortion is as great a dignity as the
right to
>free speech. And therefore it's something that should not only
be
>tolerated, but maximized -- by having the Federal Government
pay for it, by
>prohibiting anyone from trying to discourage anyone from exercising
it."
>
>Limiting Gay Rights
>
>Similarly, he sees a clear line on just how far the gay rights
movement
>should go. "At the end of the day, I do not think society can
or should
>treat homsexuality the same as heterosexuality, or at least
the same as the
>heterosexual family." What then, is the appropriate government
stance?
>"Legal protection for marriage and lack of legal recognition,
in a sense,
>of homosexual unions of whatever sort, but not persecution of
homosexuals
>in their private lives."
>
>
>
>Louis Proyect
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