Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA22897 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 14 Feb 2002 23:56:12 GMT Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20020214183921.00a49420@mail.clarityconnect.com> X-Sender: rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:48:55 -0500 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com> Subject: RE: An odd addition to the axis of evil In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3102A6D255@inchna.stir.ac.uk > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hello Vincent and Aaron,
I applaud you both on your in depth analysis of the right wing conservative
mind. One of you claiming it was RU 486 and the other economics, and I
think there was someone else who said something about GATT. However there
is a far simpler alternative. I would have to give the nod to the editor
of The Weekly Standard who I would assume understands his reader's minds a
bit better than any of us.
>Dear Ray,
>
>You weren't able to find the results to that Question of the Week because
>the polls aren't archived for the public. But it's true: France was the
>run-away winner.
>
>However, I'm not certain that our readers weren't just having a little bit
>of fun.
>
>Best,
>JVL
>
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At 11:41 AM 2/14/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> <In addition to Religious Right views on other countries' sexual
>morality, big government, and godlessness, there is also the abortion
>issue that comes into play in the French case. The drug RU-486 is
>known as "the French abortion pill." The Religious Right here regards
>it as a chemical weapon being used to commit genocide against
>"unborn children." They adhere to a view that life (as a person)
>begins at conception, and that aborting even an embryo is murder.
>Because France has liberal abortion laws, and is regarded as the
>inventor of RU-486, it probably gets a special "evil" status in the
>minds of the US Religious Right.>
>
>Very interesting Aaron, I wasn't aware of this, and I suspect it is a major
>element. I guess I thought economics because much of the French antipathy
>towards the US is economics-based, stemming from post-war annoyances about
>US economic imperialism (coca-colaization, or some such phrase, IIRC
>originated on France).
>
>I'd be interested to hear anyone's explanation for why so many of the people
>campaigning bitterly about the ilegality and inappropriateness of the Hague
>trial of Slobodan Milosevic appear to be Americans. Personally, I feel this
>kind of international court is the way to go for judging the likes of
>Milosevic, bin Laden (if he's ever caught) etc., but there do some to be
>some serious inconsistencies in the way the tribunal has been set up. Even
>so, I can't work out why Americans would be campaigning on behalf of
>Milosevic whose time in power was one of the great tragedies of 20th century
>Europe, but they've been all over the British media complaining about the
>trial.
>
>[Incidentally does anyone think that Ken Lay should be given the Camp X-Ray
>treatment to get him to open up? A larger number of people in the British
>elite are knee-deep in the Enron affair including the head of the Press
>Complaints Commission- the main regulatroy body of the print media-, the
>chairman of the BBC, not to mention a number of MPs as well]
>
>Vincent
>
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