<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C4BC96.F23E1E10">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in' id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Thanks for the clarification, David. = <o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Dean<o:p></o:p> Dean May             cell = 812.239.3359<o:p></o:p></font= > PianoRebuilders.com   = 812.235.5272<o:p></o:p></font= > Terre Haute IN  47802<o:p></o:p></font= > <= span class=EmailStyle21><!= [if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> -----Original Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On = Behalf Of David Love Sent: Wednesday, October = 27, 2004 11:30 PM To: 'Pianotech' Subject: RE: pure politcs = was: How we hear to David Andersen OT <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Dean:  <o:p></o:p> Let’s put the Rockwell = quote in context and not let people make the mistake of thinking that he was endorsing = Bush over Kerry.  In a long article = titled “The Myth of the Kerry Calamity” (<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/kerry-calamity.html">www.lewr= ockwell.com/rockwell/kerry-calamity.html</a>) he wrote:  = <o:p></o:p><= /p> …<o:p></o:p><= /p> Many bad things would happen = under a President Kerry. But many horrible things have happened under the Bush presidency. This is a regime that has exploded government power at a = pace I hoped we would never see again. Just once I would like to see one of the = Bush supporters write something like: <o:p></o:p><= /p> It is true that he has expanded = the budget at twice the rate of Clinton, that he has created the largest and most = powerful new federal bureaucracy since the WW2, that he has imposed costly = protectionist legislation, that he keeps prisoners of war in violation of = international law, that he lied about Iraq, that he is personally responsible for the = deaths of 1,100 US soldiers, and 15,000+ Iraqi civilians, that his war has = inspired terrorism around the world, and that another four years of this can only = mean more loss of liberty and more bloodshed. And yet, I support his = reelection for fear of Kerry. <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0945466382/lewrockw= ell/"></a>But the Bush supporters don't = say that. Instead they liken him to God. They consider him savior. They trust him = with leadership. They really credit him with securing the country. They say = that he is ruling in the name of liberty. It is remarkable, even demonic. The = Bush regime isn't just a group of leaders vying for our affections. It is the world's leading example of the cult of power itself. Kerry may be = dangerous but he heads no cult and commands no army of deluded religious fanatics = willing to celebrate him as he leads the country into a totalitarian hell of = endless war and central administration. <o:p></o:p><= /p> Nonetheless, this is not an = endorsement. It is an anti-endorsement. Until the day of real freedom arrives, we = need both parties so that they might fight among themselves. Better that they = point their guns at each other than at us.<o:p></o:p><= /p>  <o:p></o:p><= /p> David Love<o:p></o:p><= /p>  <o:p></o:p><= /p>  <o:p></o:p>=  <o:p></o:p>= Dean May wrote:<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> I like what Lew Rockwell wrote yesterday = (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/kerry-calamity.html ). Here is what he wishes Bush supporters had the honesty to = say:<o:p></o:p> It is true that (Bush) has expanded the budget = at twice the rate of Clinton, that he has created the largest and most = powerful new federal bureaucracy since the WW2, that he has imposed costly = protectionist legislation, that he keeps prisoners of war in violation of = international law, that he lied about Iraq, that he is personally responsible for the = deaths of 1,100 US soldiers, and 15,000+ Iraqi civilians, that his war has = inspired terrorism around the world, and that another four years of this can only = mean more loss of liberty and more bloodshed. And yet, I support his = reelection for fear of Kerry.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p><= /p> </div> </body> </html>