Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <38FE68E8.26962F32@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>  
>> Hitler wasn't a leftist.....  btw you also have Pinochet in Chile,
>> which received a lot of US support when he was most active killing
>> his opponents.
> 
> Depends. Our usually usage of "left" and "right" refers to the Assembly
> in the early French republic with the supporters of the monarchy on the
> right, and what would later be called communists on the left. But that
> doesn't make as much sense as another political spectrum which puts
> anarchist on the right (no government) and totalitarians on the left
> (Hitler and his good buddy Stalin). Besides, by either spectrum Hitler
> was left wing - remember the name of his party? National SOCIALIST
> Workers Party?
 
You shouldn't believe everything Hitler said -- he also claimed to be
a bringer of peace and freedom, and by that he won the election in
Germany around 1933.  Shortly afterwards he removed freedom from
Germany, and some years later he removed peace from Europe.
 
If Hitler was a left-winger, why did he imprison not only jews,
gypsies and homosexuals but also socialists and communists?
 
> And that's why modern liberals ARE left wing, they believe that
> government is the cure for most human ills, and so left/liberal
> governments do more, cost more, and control more. As the US Supreme
> Court has said, where Federal dollars go, Federal control goes too.
 
On the other hand, liberals also believe in private property and
private enterprise as the engine for everything -- that makes them
right wing.  And overall this makes them middle wing.  But of course
that perspective may appear alien to US citizens, who live where
almost the entire country is right wing....
 
> But what does this have to do with the Apple ][?
 
I guess we got carried away when discussing whether it was ethical
or not to distribute copies of that "Red Book" for the Apple II... :-)
 
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