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In the situation you have described, I "invite" readers of other groups 
and lists to "join in".  A few "cross-postings" to groups like soc.motss 
or talk.politics.democrat is nice.  The other thing I do is draw out the 
"ugliness" and cross-post the clips.

When people think they are participating in a "closed clique", there is
a tendency to be more "radical".  When they realize that thousands of 
people my be evaluating them based on their next word, they realize they 
can do more damage to their cause than good.

Conservative Republican platforms were first discussed on the internet.  
Often contributors were members of the KKK.  When confronted in an open 
forum, they learned what the public would and would not buy into.  For 
example, they realized that they couldn't publicly announce that their 
real agenda behind creating the target of "dead beat dads" was the 
eventual imprisonment of mostly minority "dead-beat-dads" in a form of 
"Work Release Program".  They had euphemisms for the Military Bases they 
wanted to turn into Concentration camps for single-parent families on 
welfare.  The aim was to protect the women (Especially minority women) 
from the Men who would exploit them.  On paper it looks good until you 
realize that the economics of such a community would open up the doors 
for corruption, hardship, starvation, and even extermination of the 
residents (By the people they are supposed to be protected from).

The really interesting and effective handling is to show the most 
extremist views and to expose these views to the general media.  Radio 
and TV Talk-Shows eat these guys up.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



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