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To: Benson_Carter
I take it you're a young person? from one to another, what's with support of the Green Party?

I'm 33 years young. Support for the Green Party means you support reforming government.

Here's a list of core Green values

1) Ecological widsom

2) Grassroots democracy

3) Social justice

4) Nonviolence

5) Decentralization

6) Community based economics

7) Feminism

8) Respect for diversity

9) Global responsibility

10) Sustainability

A Green said to me last week that "voting Democrat is like re-arranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic." I said "well what's that mean about your vote for Nader?"

As Nader said, the Democrat and Republican parties are two sides of the same coin.

The guy is a damned socialist, not even a smart one.

There's not much room for Socialists in the Green Party. Socialism has destroyed the environment and human rights.

As for Winona Laduke? She's the biggest kook ever.

hmm... 'kook'. OK. I thought only right-wingers were 'kooks'.

You're no civil libertarian if you support abortion.

Supporting reproductive rights is civil libertarian.

In fact I'm miffed; it's people like you who give libertarians a bad name. Killing a child in the womb is an infringement of rights (Life, Liberty, and Persuit of Happiness) as well as an initation of force against an individual.

Sure, if you believe that a fetus has the same rights as a person. But that's not so.

215 posted on 11/02/2001 11:21:17 AM PST by Ubonic
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To: Ubonic
you're caught up in buzzwords and horribly confused.

stick around, you might have a change of heart.

216 posted on 11/02/2001 11:25:36 AM PST by Benson_Carter
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To: Ubonic
Sure, if you believe that a fetus has the same rights as a person. But that's not so.

A fetus has unique DNA - clearly the fetus IS another person, with all the corresponding rights.

217 posted on 11/02/2001 11:26:26 AM PST by NittanyLion
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To: Ubonic
There's not much room for Socialists in the Green Party.

< cough >

< choke >

220 posted on 11/02/2001 11:44:14 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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To: Ubonic
Those terms you listed are easy to throw around, but I'd be interested in hearing you explain what exactly each of the 10 entail, and how you'd go about accomplishing them. What's more, how would you go about accomplishing each without contradicting one of the others?
222 posted on 11/02/2001 11:59:05 AM PST by NittanyLion
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