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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: On dissent and criticism.
Message-ID: <258@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 15:28:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 15:28:36 1986
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>   I get sick and tired of idiots who insist that because I *DARE* to 
>criticize America, I am somehow aiding and abetting the "filthy commies".
>How *DARE* any of you denigrate me for
>exercising my right and responsibility to dissent, when I see things that
>are wrong!!??!!

Some people dare because they get a little testy when something associated
with them (like America if they happen to be Americans) is disparaged. 
Particularily, when they feel it is not deserved.  You denigrate them;
they denigrate you.

You have the right to dissent and criticize, but you are not safe from it
either.  Further, people are not obliged to accept it.  If you throw sh*t
into a fan, don't be too surprised if some of it comes back and hits you
in the face. ;-)

>tom keller
>{ihnp4, dual}!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020

My opinions are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

David Olson
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"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere