>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>Thinking of people in terms of "countries" instead of individuals
>is part of the problem. I have no respect for patriots; I am a
>free man not because I happened to be born within US borders, I am
>a free man because I am alive. I do not ask for entitlements to
>anything but the freedom to associate and deal with those who
>freely choose to associate and deal with me--and I must therefore
>grant those same rights to everyone else, regardless of their
>"nationality" or any other artificial category. If the government
>that has presently imposed itself upon this soil supports such
>honest and voluntary dealings among free men, then it can be
>tolerated. If it does not, then it is my enemy.
Yep, it's great fun to be a stoic in a free country, but a stoic in
a despotic hellhole usually ends up as a dead stoic....
Brian
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