'Terrism' Inc.

Chip Berlet cberlet at igc.org
Sun May 5 08:16:55 PDT 2002


Hi,

Sorry, I have a cold. I meant to say reproductive health clinics.

Now you can toast me for that, but perhaps answer my original question (see below)


:-)

-Chip


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of
> kelley at pulpculture.org
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:37 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: 'Terrism' Inc.
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> At 05:18 PM 5/4/02 -0400, Chip Berlet wrote:
> ><...> OK, so if AlQ/Tlbn is not what
> >you would call "religious fanatics" (an arguably demonizing
> term, if you
> >appreciate puns), then what would you call US Protestant
> evangelicals who
> >blow up reproductive rights clinics and shoot doctors?
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> US Protestants evangelicals who blow up ABORTION CLINICS. And
> the horse you
> rode in on Chip! What kind of feminist are you? I strongly object to
> characterizing them as reproductive rights clinics, since, as
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> current abortion practice in the US, there is much need for more
> progressive reforms in this area before we could speak of them as
> reproductive rights clinics!
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> Gotcha! i didn't mean it about the horse you road in on. i am
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> bestiality and i only beat my dead lesbian phallus, never
> horses. <snort>
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> Butt, seriously, I wouldn't call people who bomb clinics and murder
> abortionists--and I've done clinic defense in Terry Randall
> country!--religious fanatics, or anything close. Nor would I
> be especially
> interested in the danger of their millenarian ideologies for
> mounting a
> mass movement that might bring them to power--evangelical
> anti-abortionists
> or Al-Q or the Taliban or whomever. For one, I think it's always more
> complex than just religion, just as I think it's always more
> complex than
> just "it's the economy, stupid".
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