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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: Silly us
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 10:44:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 10:44:29 1986
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In article <750@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>>[...]I've gone on a long time beating this dead horse -- but those of you
>>who are so sure that our civil liberties are intact have got your heads
>>inserted into Fantasyland.
>
>**BEGIN RHETORIC**
>Silly us.
>I cannot help but notice however that all these very alarmist postings
>[...] propose nothing as to what they expect the "gentle reader"
>to do, [...]
>Silly us.
>**END RHETORIC**
>dan levy

Silly you, Dan. You say let's get out and vote against these abuses.
1. Maybe that's what these "alarmist posters" want.
2. Maybe the New World colonists should have tried to work things out within
   the system 2 centuries ago, too, before running off half-cocked into a
   revolution. (Or did they?)
3. Did you ever consider that maybe these abuses actually occur? That maybe
   they might not be merely local temporary breakdowns of the system, but 
   symptoms of a steadier erosion somewhere? It's certainly a lot easier to
   hide your head in the sand and hope they'll go away. That's an old old way
   of dealing with problems that haven't affected you directly (yet).
Silly you. 

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