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make decisions based more on who they don't want in office than
on who they think is best able to do the job.
Dirty, mud-slinging campaigning on the part of many of the
candidates running in the 1990 elections are driving many people
to distraction trying to decide which is best: a candidate with a
possible scandal in his past or a candidate who feels he has to
resort to dredging up dirt on his opponents in order to win.
And, in a trend that seems to be backfiring on the mudslingers,
many are ready to vote for the former.
The 1990 campaigns saw more accusing and finger-pointing
than any so far. Lt. Gov. Nick Theodore has run ads blaming his
Republican opponent Henry McMaster for lobbying to get a prisoner
paroled ? a prisoner that later killed someone.
McMaster has used commercials that imply a link between
Theodore and those indicted in the State House sting.
Republican candidate for Fifth Circuit Solicitor Ron Childress
has run radio spots accusing his opponent, Dick Harpootlian (D),
of supporting a drug addict to succeed him in his capacity as de
puty solicitor. Ana tne list goes on.
This year's eligible voters have heard more "he did (or didn't
do) this or that," than they have heard "I can do" or "I will do." It
seems real political issues have gotten lost somewhere in the
middle of all the turmoil.
, Voters have heard little about environmental issues, abortion,
gun control and other major issues facing today's political leaders.
The candidates are all too busy attacking, defending, dredging and
reattacking to consider their beliefs on such topics.
In the end, is anyone really fit to hold these positions? Is anyone
really mature enough? Only time will tell.
One thing is sure though. Someone will get elected in all of
these races, and it's up to voters to make the best they can of this
bad situation. It's unfortunate that many will be forced to vote
against one candidate rather than for another.
Maybe someday voters will once again be able to vote on the
merits of a candidate rather than on the filthy campaigning of
opponents.
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Censorship, s
To those who see anti-censorship supporters
as leftist, liberal "champions of the gross and
repulsive" (Larry Huss, The State Nov. 4, LettAfO
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is not an issue of whether or not the
supporter likes what is being censored. It is a
question of whether or not anybody has the
right to tell anybody else what they can see,
look at, read, hear, draw, paint, print, photograph,
use or think about.
Huss' letter concerned the banning of the 2
Live Crew album As Nasty as They Wanna Be,
and the people who asked what right the jury
had to impose their standards on society. His
counter-question, he said, is "What right do
these champions of the gross and repulsive have
to impose their standards on society?"
Well, sir, if you really want to know. I'll tell
you.
First, though, let me mention that your question
is phrased incorrectly. Allowing something
like the 2 Live Crew album to exist in the
public realm is not forcing anyone to listen to
it, buy it or even look at it.
I personally detest the band, their lyrics, their
sexist attitudes and almost everything else about
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6. We won the Heisman. We a peace song
;hould be able to win the national you think?
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5. We don't cheat in recruiting. OK. No one'
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them. However, if my neighbors wants to listei
to dirt like that, who am I to say they can't
Who are you to say they can't? I'll tell you ?
we're nobody.
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being sold does not mean that I, or anybod;
else, can force you to get it And if I can't forci
you to get it, how on earth am I imposing m;
standards on you? In fact, if I agree with you 01
the social value of this band (which is zero t<
none), how can simply saying it's un-Americai
to censor it be imposing my standards on you?
support your standard entirely, for Pete's sake
At least to the point where you say censor
That, I believe, is an imposition.
How? Let me show you.
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from the '60s, don't main a bisexual while
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s asking you to burn bisexual activities?
bandon your country To continue bisexu;
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parent in one of the nation's school systems that
the book was teaching immorality. What's im- *
moral about Little Red Riding HoocP. After the I
woodcutters slit the wolf up the middle and let .1
Grandma out, Red and Grannie enjoy the wine
Red's mother sent in the basket and are seen on
the final page dancing in what I believe is
drunken glee. Imagine ? teaching alcoholism
to children. The nerve.
Now, let me say I think this complaint is abs
surd, and being the anti-censorship supporter I
y am, would never lobby to keep this man from
5 reading this story to his child.
y But say I managed to convince a jury that
i this book was a disgrace and it was banned. Say
3 you thought the idea was ludicrous. Too bad ?
i you still couldn't buy the book. That would be
I imposing my standards on you.
If, however, I don't attempt to get the book
. removed from the shelves, you can still read it
to little Susie, and I don't have to look at it if I
don't want to.
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share my ity. The only way around this
Dur inability would be for at least four bisexuals
jrged us to (minimum requirements being the X
let me urge presence of two males and two females)
to meet, fall in love with
L. Graham everyone in the group and decide
sophomore to form a bisexual marriage unit in
which all sexual activities would X
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that would be a result from the human
^ndency, over time, to develop
favorite partners. Some members
within the bisexual marriage 1*
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1 like to ask others within the group to satisfy
imebody re- their bisexual urges.
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inue one's lems arise, but there would be a
greater sense of trust because each
al behavior spouse would know that they both
individual only had one another and that they
to have sex both followed the same moral code
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