Re: SOCIETY: Re: The privatization of public security in South America

From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 18:54:07 MDT


At 07:16 AM 23/08/2001 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:

> >From: Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au>
>
> >I really wince when some of the more patriotic on this list say...
>
>Gosh, I must have missed that post.... Who exactly was it who said
>this?
>
>Our old buddy strawman?

:-)
Nope. You may well have missed some of them.

Here is a recent good one:
"we repeatedly lead the world along intellectually, scientifically,
philosophically, politically....and most importantly, creatively."

There have been others, but thankfully not a heck of a lot. Many of the
people on this list seem smart enough to have avoided patriotic brainwashing.

Cheers,

         - Miriam

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