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Edited on Mon Jan-30-06 01:10 PM by Yollam
Or to be more specific, reasons why I've been called a freeper on this and other boards.
Don't get me wrong, I consider myself to be the leftiest of lefties.
I support:
*More equity in pay scales and a limit on CEO compensation. *A much more progressive income tax system, elimination of many regressive taxes, and higher corporate taxes. *The right of all people in whatever gender combination to marry. *The right to contraception, and for a woman to abort her pregnancy. *The right to free expression. *The right to privacy free of unwarranted wiretaps. *More protections for worker safety, and a guaranteed right to organize. *A policy of peaceful engagement, with war used ONLY as a last resort. *An immediate end to the Iraq war and occcupation. *Full and comprehensive SINGLE PAYER national health care for all. *Free, compulsory Pre-K to University education for all, with all schools funded EQUALLY per student. *A strict separation between church and state, and a revocation of tax-exempt status for churches that engage in political activism. *Immediate removal from office of ANY national officeholder with ANY "defense" stock or other interests. It's a huge conflict of interest and they have no business making decisions of war and peace. *Legislation to strip corporations of their "personhood" and other legal privileges. *The minimum wage should be raised to $8/hr and pegged to inflation, with special requirements for higher minimum wages in areas with extremely high costs of living like Manhattan, SF. *Employers should have no right to randomly drug-test employees who have shown no sign of drug use. Even police don't have this power. *The drug war is racist, classist and should be ended. The prisons should be for violent criminals and rich as-holes who embezzle and con working people out of their hard-earned money.
And so on and so on, but: because I believe that:
*Andrea Yates or any other "mentally ill" child-killers should be locked up and the key thrown away, and I don't care that she's nuts. *The Americans With Disabilities Act goes way too far an puts an undue burden on small businesses, schools, etc. to cater to wheelchair users who are so few or even nonexistent that is makes no sense. I believe the ADA regs should have applied mostly to new construction. *Our borders should be enforced and all illegals deported. (Also, companies that hire illegals should be punished more severely) *Abortion is not something to be taken lightly, should be discouraged, and should not be allowed in the third trimester except for danger to life of the mother. *I hate the movement toward "native plants" in our city parks. It's great to use plants that use less water if you are in an area where it doesn't rain much, and reducing the amount of grass being watered an mowed is also wise, but but a lot of these plants are just plain drab and ugly. Save them for for open space and nature preserves. I want my city parks to have lots of beautiful, blooming, NON-NATIVE plants! *I don't think Mumia is innocent or should be freed. (I kinda think Peltier was innocent, but am not so sure) *I don't automatically assume that the cops are racist or wrong because they used a baton on a suspect. I actually like to hear more of the facts before screaming RACISM! *I often attack DINO dems who voted for the war or otherwise kissed the ass of Dumbya. I've laid into Skull 'n' Bones Kerry a few times too. Sorry, it just seems like he threw the election to me...
I guess there must be a few other things I've been called a freeper for, but I can't remember why.
Because of these things, I MUST be a "freeper", or so they tell me.
ON EDIT: I have also been called a freeper once because I said that the "fat acceptance" movement was wrong to tell morbidly obese people that they should not diet. I like a lot of what they say, but I have a problem with them on that point.
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