JIMinFL wrote:
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This have something to do with boats?

Aren't there some right wing groups some place where people would be
eager to GD your target group?

Conscience bothering you?

Not at all.

I walked away from an offer made by the American Friends Service
Committee (Quaker Church) that would have had me in Vancouver with a
job in a cabinet shop and well out of reach of the draft board. I
stayed in the US, followed the law, was ultimately classified I-0 and
fulfilled my obligation to serve my country for two years. The only way
my conscience would have bothered me now would be if I had ignored it
then. Most people with enough money to do so simply hid out in college
during that time to avoid dealing with the issue, (see the majority of
our current government leaders for specific examples, including the
VPOTUS) or others simply shut up, stood up, and marched off to a war
they felt was very, very wrong. How about you? Got a conscience? If so,
my sincere wish for you is that you can look back on whatever decisions
you made in the 60's (if you were of age then) with the same peace of
mind that I do.

What bothers me are the folks from the left and the right who feel that
their need for self expression trumps the civil courtesy of posting
on-topic. Have you so little imagination that you can't think of a
group where a rant like.... "Look what those damn pinko Canadians are
up to now, they want to honor US draft resistors. Ke-reist, next thing
you know they'll learn how to say 'Jane Fonda' without spitting or
puking,- didn't those SOB's up north of the border ever hear the phrase
'kill a commie for Christ'?"... would be welcome?

If the NG is supposed to be a free-for-all, why not just call it a chat
room? What would be the point of having a nominal topic at all? I
absolutely support your right to free speech, etc, but just like you
wouldn't stand up in a strip joint, grab the microphone, and start
reading from the Book of Leviticus as an exercise in free speech or
stand up in church and read
passages from a porn novel, there are appropriate and inappropriate
venues for the exercise of that free speech. If you want to see what
the NG looks like when nobody has the self discipline to stick with the
topic, go back about 6 months or so and take a look. If you want
threads titled "Poster X is a So-and-so", "Bush's poll numbers are up",
"Bush's poll numbers are down", "The War in Iraq is Shrewd and Heroic,
and protects Main Street USA from suicide bombers", "The War in Iraq is
a BS grab for mid-east colonies", etc, etc, etc, the best way to
propagate them is to go back to running OT political threads.

And hey, the neat thing about everybody putting up just one OT
political thread is we can then all say, "Gee, too bad about the NG,
but it's really somebody else's fault. I only started
a few of the OT threads, and there are dozens of them."

Point summarized: You can find a NG where your type of political
material is actually consistent with the intended topic and participate
there, so there is no real need to f*** up a boating newsgroup with
some inappropriate and OT whine about the choices free people in
another country might be making.