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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Ho-hum
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 14:25:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 14:25:10 1987
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In article <248@ers.UUCP>, nmm@ers.UUCP (Neil McCulloch) writes:
> In article <869@cod.NOSC.MIL>, rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp) writes:
> > This nonsense of saying "Well, we
> > can't travel to Cuba" as a response to the fact that Soviet citizens can't,
> > apart from Soviet government business, travel *anywhere*, is getting a bit
> > old.  By the way, it seems to me that a lot of Americans *have* gone to Cuba
> > lately.)
> 
> It's not nonsense. The point is that your government passed a law forbidding
> travel to Cuba. The fact that they passed the law should tell you that
> you don't have any freedom but what the government permits. The only 

Close...but not quite.  We (like Canada, unless things have changed)
are free to do anything in the eyes of the government except for those
things that have been expressly forbidden.  The set of forbidden
things, in both cases, are substantially smaller than the set of
permitted things.  (Though it's sometimes difficult to believe, given
size of the stack of books required to contain the text of laws that
apply in tot.c,@offof