From: Michael Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Avoozl 10 Dec 94 08:58:12 Subject: Re: 94 Election UpdReq Avo> Since the 94 election, is there any concern (perhaps more than Avo> previously before) about the Right Christian Majority? Speaking in my political-scientist capacity, I would say, "Too soon to tell." Bear in mind that the Xtian-Right has been very paranoid (even more than usual) under Clinton, and it has been very belligerent & vocal accordingly. With more of a Republican presence in Washington, it may calm down a bit. And the Republicans, while certainly moving the country to the right in some areas, may be careful about not wanting to alienate major sections of the voting masses by going too far. That would just provoke a counter-vote in the next election and lose them the Congress, etc. that they are so happy to have. The Xtian-Right may find that it now has less leverage, because it simply isn't *needed* any more. Its votes are taken for granted, in other words; it's not going to vote Democratic! Therefore its agendae do not have to be courted. Driving the train today is not so much religion as "big money wishing to make more money". Hence NAFTA and GATT, whose "screw the little guy in America" impact will absolutely dwarf every showcasey-progressive tidbit of the Clinton Administration. It was predictable that in this "big money" area Clinton would march 100% along with Bush, as would any Republican or Democratic Clinton successor. As "X" said in the film _JFK_: "That's the real question, isn't it - 'Why?' - the 'how' is just 'scenery' for the suckers. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, Mafia, it keeps people guessing like a parlor game, but it prevents them from asking the most important question - Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefitted? Who has the power to cover it up?" In my Pol Sci classes I have always advised students to try to keep from being diverted by the current "scenery for the suckers", as X puts it, and see what major forces are in motion. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Lilith Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Avoozl 11 Dec 94 08:35:06 Subject: Re: 94 Election UpdReq Avo> Since the 94 election, is there any concern (perhaps more than Avo> previously before) about the Right Christian Majority? Well, yes of course. However, since they are going so radically off the edge, such as not only pushing to bring back prayer in schools but in the workplace and all other public places, they are shooting themselves in the foot. That has resulted in powerful organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith to actively and publicly oppose them, and of course there are other organizations such as the atheist Freedom From Religion Foundation that is quite large and very politically active. And one would hope just the silent majority of people who are not Christian Right. Time will tell, but the more extreme the Fundies show themselves to be, the less effect they will have. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Michael Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Albert Saperstein 10 Dec 94 08:26:32 Subject: Re: Ed Weber UpdReq Edward Webber is alive and well; Lilith and I spoke wit him just the other day. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Lilith Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Albert Saperstein 11 Dec 94 08:26:08 Subject: Re: Ed Weber UpdReq AS> This is reminiscent of the recent swirl of rumors concerning Bob Wilson. AS> AS> --- We just heard from Ed Webber the other day, and happy to say he's alive and well. The timing was kind of interesting, given the recent rumor! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Michael Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Keith S Schurholz 10 Dec 94 08:42:20 Subject: Re: ONA, Brotherhood of Baldar, OLHP, etc.UpdReq KSS> LISTS - do you have any suggestions as to reading material KSS> about the above topic? Much thanks! The Temple of Set's reading list doesn't have a section focusing on or including racial studies. There is a section on esoterica pertaining to Nazism & fascism, but again not emphasizing racial theories [though it is of course difficult to separate Nazism in particular from its racial presuppositions]. I recently came across an interesting little book completely by accident. Stefan Kuhl (umlaut over the "u"), _The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism_. NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-508260. Hardcover. $22. Kuhl is a sociologist & historian at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. This thoughtful, methodical little book surveys the turn of the century racial & eugenics ideas that prevailed throughout much of Europe & the US, and shows how Germany actually followed America's lead in developing the notorious policies that would later be blamed wholly & simply on the Nazis. The book also surveys the recent resurgence of eugenics & racial-difference theories in their "scientific/respectable" guise. All in all quite a well-researched, well-written book. It certainly won't make self-righteous, "we've never been racist!" Americans very happy. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Lilith Aquino Area: Base of Set To: Albert Saperstein 11 Dec 94 08:24:02 Subject: Re: ONA, Brotherhood of Baldar, OLHP, etc.UpdReq AS> I'm an independent student and I've examined ToS as thoroughly as any AS> outsider could on the Nazi angle. I can say that I am completely and AS> thoroughly satisfied that they are not Nazis or Nazoids. In fact, I'm AS> pretty damned impressed with them. Thank you! One of the things that makes me throw up my hands in disgust is when some "outsider" starts screaming that we're Nazis because we have a section in our huge reading list that has some books on it such as "Mein Kampf" and "Spear of Destiny", etc. Totallt ignoring of course the hundreds of other categories and books on the list that has nothing to do with it! Using that criteria, I guess all of the libraries and universities that have these kind of books anywhere on the premises are Nazis too! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718