Re: Political labels (was: neocons (WAS IRAQ: Weapons of Mass Delusion))

From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 15:26:45 MDT

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    Mike Lorrey wrote

    >
    > People who swear to citizenship are entering a contract with the rest
    > of us to honor and respect that constitution and its content.

    What about those who are just born? (A genuine question, I'm not sure how it
    fits in to this scheme unless everyone has to make such an undertaking on
    reaching a certain age).

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    > "Everyone is entitled to their opinion" is such a cop out. Do you think
    > that monarchists should bring the monarchy back to Italy? Perhaps the
    > Pope should rule Italy like he used to? Or the Spanish? Perhaps the
    > Nazis should run Germany once more...
    >
    > There are some opinions which, while people are entitled to them,
    > cannot be permitted to find fertile ground to take root in reality.
    >
    What?! There are monarchists in Italy (and several other European republics)
    who are fully at liberty to put their views. Do you think they shouldn't be
    able to? Who or what is going to "not permit" certain views "to find fertile
    ground to take root in reality"? And whence comes the power to "permit",
    which logically implies a power to forbid?

    Steve Davies

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