[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt to Ant]
> But your recommendation that we join extremist global pressure groups
> like Greenpeace or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) reveals
> what I suspected all along about the current hippie agenda -- in
> lockstep with the radical left wing.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Do you oppose the formation of right-wing pressure groups such as the
> NRA, the American Families Association, the Media Research Center, the
> Parents Music Resource Center, and the John Birch Society? Or is it only
> "leftists" who are "radical" when they form pressure groups?

When one of the founders of Greenpeace resigned because it became too 
extreme, I'd say that group is properly pegged as radical. (See the 
story of Dr. Patrick Moore in Wikipedia.)  As for CND. a pressure group 
that rejects societal self-defense is not only radical, it's wacko.

I don't oppose the formation of pressure groups on the left, right, or 
anywhere else. Those who join such groups, however, can hardly be held 
out as models of people who "think for themselves."

Platt