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From: nelson@IMAGE.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Akwesasne Notes -- Basic Call to Consciousness 1977
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Date: 20 Jan 90 06:58:46 GMT
Sender: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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   you are too God-damned rational about this entire discussion

   Try this idea, jerk:  "The Real is *not* the Rational."

   And, after you've given away all of your material wealth,
   and lived on the street like the poor folks.

   Then I'll hear you out.  As you pontificate from your philosophy
   armchair, your position is like the Pharisees of Mathew 23.

Oh, and I find it quite amusing that you call me, a Quaker, "rational".

I suggest that you either let the matter drop (which involves letting me
have the last word, which may not be acceptable to you), or else answer
the question, to wit:

Is it in a person's self interest to expropriate private property that
is in a public place and is apparently lost?

I would also like to know what being poor has to do with the answer to
the above question.

-- 
--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])  Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems