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To: DugwayDuke; dighton; Orual; aculeus; general_re; Poohbah
"Also posted on Lew Rockwell dot Com."

That figures ... and then it slithered over here.

20 posted on 10/08/2002 4:06:28 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: BlueLancer
{{ Also posted on Lew Rockwell dot Com. }}
{ That figures ... and then it slithered over here. }

As it happens, I found this one through links elsewhere. Yet I'm getting tired of this particular ad hominem. You're using the provenance of Web links as a substitute for argument. I've been here on FR for three years, and this has only become commonplace (outside of campaign threads) in the last year, since the Nine Eleven atrocities. Before then, at least a minimal stab was made at full-throated debate.

What I've witnessed with dismay is that too many now want shortcuts -- for ethical, political, or merely factual judgment. It's easier to simply dismiss any intelligent critic as a "Rockwellite" or a "DemonRAT" or a "peacenik" -- or, lately, "traitor" -- than to frame a counterargument. This is turning FreeRepublic into a place of political masturbation, and little more, on many threads. It used to be a forum, however raucous and lively. It rarely is any more.

22 posted on 10/08/2002 4:23:47 AM PDT by Greybird
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To: BlueLancer
Wallerstein the socialist being approvingly reprinted by the Lewsers - it's the Sixties all over again, with the resurrection of the far left/far right anti-American coalition. Anyway, when the Rockwellians have to look to a guy like Wallerstein for aid and comfort, and to the Canadian press for material, it can only be a sign of desperation...
26 posted on 10/08/2002 4:33:49 AM PDT by general_re
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