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Geoff Brandt (who will vote to reelect Dr. Ron Paul in November) /p>

Ryan Sager is free to raise the bogeyman of the Christian/Religious Right because bigotry against Christianity is "approved" and "makes sense" to so many Americans, much like in living memory many of us heard just about any problem "rationally" blamed on Jews or blacks. Somehow the fact that some people believe they ultimately answer to a both all just and all merciful Creator is an unacceptable mental condition, rendering any judgment of those people incompatible with the democratic process. Although a religious person may often not agree with the politics of an irreligious person, I have yet to hear that an irreligious nature per se is incompatible with the democratic process.

Sad to say, my anecdotal experience is entirely consistent with Sager's hypothesis. Libertarians go mad dog over Christianity and turn a blind eye to the much larger groups that are far more contradictory to their fundamental goals. And Sager is right about Californians moving their neighboring states to the left, simply cashing in and exploiting the wild property valuations in their native state. In a similar process, Massachusetts natives are wrecking New Hampshire, the last Republican state in the northeast.

Anyone with a better than room temperature IQ understands the almost unique nature of the Schiavo case: a not brain dead woman who failed to craft a living will, whose legal husband had clearly moved on, living with another woman and having children by her, and whose parents were willing to assume all responsibility for her. Nevertheless the very thought of "don't tell me what I can and cannot do" overrides all other considerations.

Ask any Libertarian: you wake up tomorrow, there are nine John Ashcrofts on the Supreme Court, one in the White House, and 500 something in the Congress. Exactly what did you do yesterday that you fear you cannot do today? Or what did you decline yesterday that you will be compelled to do today? Again in my anecdotal experience the response is always silence.

p>This makes sense? br> -- Frank Natoli br> Newton, New Jersey /p> p> TOLERANT, EXCEPT WHEN WE'RE NOT br> Re: Ralph R. Reiland's

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