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- From: burgett@adobe.com (Michael Burgett)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.191514.12590@adobe.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:15:14 GMT
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- Bob Blackshaw (bob1@cos.com) wrote:
- : In <BzMDI7.7JI.2@cs.cmu.edu> zitsky+@CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Ryan Miller) writes:
-
- [ .... ]
-
- : Sorry Mark, I'm not blind to the faults of our government, nor am I blind
- : to areas where things can be improved. It's simply that I can't recall the
- : last time (or any time) when I stuck my nose and mouth into the internal
- : affairs of Finland, The United Kingdom, or the countries of any of the
- : other U.S.'s self appointed critics. If that pisses them, or you, off
- : try and imagine how upset I will be.
-
- : REB
-
- yeah, and since when do Finland, the UK and others push the UN to underwrite
- their interventions, and hold themselves up to the rest of the world as a
- shining example of freedom and respect for human rights? We certainly deserve
- the scrutiny of the rest of the world, we are affecting them in ways they
- aren't affecting us or each other. And Free Speech is a *human right* not an
- American right. You certainly have the right to disagree, with anything
- anyone says, just as they have the right to say it in the first place. So I
- guess for the immediate future, you'll just have to go around pissed off.
-
- mike burgett
-
- burgett@mv.us.adobe.com | "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
- Views expressed herein | while the legislature is in session."
- belong to the author. | -- Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866.
-
-
- --
- burgett@adobe.com | "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
- Views expressed herein | while the legislature is in session."
- belong to the author. | -- Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866.
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