Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuts.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuts!orb From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Edwin Meese Message-ID: <479@whuts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 12:53:42 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.479 Posted: Mon Jan 13 12:53:42 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 20:46:55 EST References: <1945@psuvax1.UUCP> <39000046@ISM780B.UUCP> <2291@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 36 > In article orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes: > >> > >> >Some people, Meese included, think recent Supreme Courts have subverted > >> >Constitutional principle. President Reagan was elected in part because > >> >the electorate agrees with him on this. Wouldn't it be pretty silly for > >> >his Attorney General to just go along with the Court on everything? > >> > > > >Chancellor Hitler was elected by the overwhelming majority of Germans. > >So his actions challenge the German Constitution or the > >rapcious profits of despicable Jews? Isn't it silly to oppose him? > > > > tim sevener whuxn!orb > > Tim, are you saying that the US has the right to oppose a duly elected and > constituted authority if it's in our national interest to do so? I glad to > find out that you really do support the President's policy on Nicaragua. -:) > / / Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. No, I am not saying that one country has the right to unilaterally interfere in the rights of another. What I am saying is that those who opposed Hitler *in Germany* despite his popular support were entirely justified in doing so. The fact that horrendous policies have popular support (e.g. McCarthyism in our own country) does not make such policies justified morally. We would not take too kindly to Europeans or any other country funding terrorists to kill Americans or blow up economic targets. Yet that is precisely what the contras are doing in Nicaragua. What would be your response if another country mined New York harbor? Would you say such an action was acceptable? If not, then why please justify the mining of Nicaragua's major harbor? tim sevener whuxn!orb