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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Libertarian Arguments -- Reply to Baba
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 04:03:46 EST
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> >I seem to recall that one of the examples of ludicrous straw men given 
> >by DKMcK was in fact a proposition put forward by a self-proclaimed 
> >libertarian several weeks earlier.
> 
>   1) Rather than seeming to recall, why doesn't Baba give us a concrete
> example?

Quite simply, spar doesn't have enough disk space to archive more than a
couple of weeks worth of news.  Both your article and the one it put
me in mind of are lost under the rainbow.  If you would care to mail
me a copy of your article, I'll be happy to tell you which example 
I was referring to.

>   2) The time that I attacked Baba for using a straw-man, he had claimed
> that Cliff had said a Libertarian country would need no lawyers, when
> Cliff had actually said that differences in the skill-levels of lawyers
> would not affect outcomes. Cliff's assertion may be debatable, but
> apparently Baba found it too challenging and opted to lie.
>
>                                Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan

	Fortunately, postnews *does* save copies of my postings for me, 
including a quote from the infamous Cliff's Note:

 "Surprise, since the legal code would be so much easier to understand it would
  be inconceivable that a lawyer's prowess would enter into the play."

Cliff subsequently explained that this was not precisely what he meant to say,
and he and I have publicly agreed that my (mis)interpretation of his statement
was natural and without malice, but not at all what he had intended. 
Rather than stoop to your level, I'll assume you missed that exchange.

						Baba