Q Wrote:
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> > I traveled to Montana to attend the Northern
> Pacific Railway Historical Society
> > Convention in Billings, MT. After attending the
> convention, I drove to Butte where
> > I stayed for a night or two and then to Missoula
> where I stayed for a couple of nights
> > (also biked the Route of the Hiawatha Trail in
> Idaho and visited Wallace, ID).
>
> > I'm as liberal as they come, but my only
> negative encounter was with a cop chasing
> > me off a platform at the ex-Northern Pacific
> depot in Missoula.
>
>
>
> Mr Buff, what the hell pray tell; has any of
> those activities, or the cop chasing you off; have
> to do with your self avowed liberalism (more
> likely pseudo-liberalism). Since the mentioned
> activities and ideology are irrelevant to each
> other; perhaps you should take the good advice I
> recently read on this forum; and I quote "Try not
> viewing the world only through ideological
> glasses."
>
>

Late me make clear what I was responding to:

"Libreals [sic] and Progressives not welcome" from Hutch 6.2

This, and nothing else. I WAS NOT intending to get into a discussion about firearms, the Constitution or Montana state law on firearms.

I was only responding to the ridiculous comment that liberals and progressives are not welcome in Montana.

My point about the cop was only made to cite the only negative encounter I can recall during my time in Montana. There was no ideology associated with that situation and it happens to many railfans regardless of their political beliefs or non-beliefs.

As far as have your comment about "self avowed liberalism (more likely pseudo- liberalism)" [I don't even know what the latter is], you don't know anything about me to rate me on some kind of scale how liberal I am.

Now if you want to defend Hutch's claim that liberals and progressives are not welcome in Montana, go ahead and try to do so.