[Buddha-l] Persecution in modern Colorado?

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:00, Jim Peavler wrote:

> So howcome you, who used to slander Christians, Jews,
> Slavs, and other outsiders, are now slandering us poor simple
> Americans?

Well, I'm a university professor, which means I have a reputation to maintain. 
I keep hearing that professors are crazed wild-eyed leftists who always blame 
America first and Israel second. Since that is what people seems to expect of 
me, and since I am such an accommodating fellow, I just can't let my fans on 
Fox news down. (I'd say more, but I have to get back to memorizing Noam 
Chomsky's latest book.)

> Actually, as you know, the President is in bad odor with most of his
> party because he actually favors more reasonable treatment of
> Hispanics, and has argued for what they call "amnesty" or the work
> program to eventual citizenship. Of course his detractors (of which I
> am one) claim he just wants his billionaire friends to have unlimited
> access to cheap labor they can  mistreat and exploit.

Loathe as I am to say anything negative about our president, I do tend to 
agree with those who say that on this Mexican immigration thing he is doing 
the right thing for all the wrong reasons. I think he's wise enough to 
realize that if he openly endorsed slavery, which is in effect what his 
billionaire friends really want, he might lose some votes in one or two swing 
states.

Buddhists probably don't like slavery, I'm guessing. (I say that because every 
message to buddha-l should be about Buddhism.)

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes