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From: chongo@nsc.uucp (Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: The Draft, suicidal arguments, A - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 16:38:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 16:38:06 1983
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well Paul pressed my flame button when he said:

  ~... love it or leave it. ~

<< FLAME ON >>
why do people, in the name of protecting the american way, seek to
or perhaps suggest that anyone critical of the US should leave?  it
would be one thing if this were the Philippines where oppisition
people have a hard time obtaining life insurance policies.  but we
are supposed to be a society which allows freedom of expression.

by restricting, or banning thoes who you feel are 'dangerious' to
freedom, YOU ARE DISTROYING FREEDOM.  this case gets even more
stupid when the people being banned are tring to uphold justice, truth,
and all those high ideals.
<< FLAME OFF >>

another possible flame producer:

<< FLAME ON >>
freedom does NOT come from any government, it is not granted to any
individual.  it is our own Declaration of Independence which states
that people are endowed with certain rights which are not capable
of being transfered to someone/something else.  it is the individual
which selects to not actualize their freedom.  this happens normally
under extream external pressure where the individual makes the decision
that their freedom it not worth it.  other people dont understand the
value of freedom that each of us can have, and repress it with little
thought.

then this being the case, why defend a system which by its
vary nature at times tries to get us to repress our own freedom.
defend FREEDOM, not a system which did NOT give us, and at times tries
to get us to repress our freedom!

take the lesson which Gandhi and King gave us regarding the power of
the freedom within us, and how we should deal with things such as
governments which try to get us to repress ourselves.
<< FLAME OFF >>

peace,

chongo /\../\