Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:00:51 -0700
From: spooner@gbis.com (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer)
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] New term coined by fan: "Vinatic"
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com


At 07:45 PM 8/10/01 -0000, Jim Lesczynski wrote:

[snip a lot of good stuff]

> I also never would have known about Vin S. or L. Neil Smith if you 

> all hadn't nominated them (if only the LP gave out their books 

> instead of Browne's and Bergland's as premiums). For that alone, I am 

> indebted to you. When I first started reading Vin, I was dumbstruck. 

>"this is terrible, 

> it's extremist, it's counterproductive, it's going to scare and 

>" I didn't revisit Vin's site until after the 

> election, and the second visit was less disturbing. I went back 

> again, and started reading The Libertarian Enterprise, and now I am a 

> total Vinatic. I push Send in the Waco Killers at every LP event in 

> NYC, and I just subscribed to Privacy Alert.

> 

> It took me longest to come around to L. Nei Smith, for similar 

> reasons to my initial distaste for Vin. I found his bluntness 

> abrasive, and I thought he was just showing off for the faithful. But 

> now I see that he is just being honest. I used to think that we had 

> to show people how reasonable libertarians are, but now I am 

> beginning to understand that what we really need is to throw cold 

> water in their faces and wake them up. If they find the truth 

> disturbing, they may need to be disturbed.

> 

> For these and so many other revelations, I thank you.


If I were a religious individual (in the usual sense of the term) I would
now be shouting HALLELUJAHs all over the place. This is the payoff, the
"incremental step" I consider well worth working for.

Bravo to you, sir. May there be many more with the perspicacity, the
integrity, and the dignity to travel the path you have taken.

Rick


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