At 11:50 24-12-01 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: >At 03:31 PM 12/24/01 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote: > >Criticising your government does not do harm to people. > >I'd just point out that in Israel, the foremost critic of the government >was made the government's Foreign Minister. > >So, please, please, please, spare me the sad day for democracy violin-speech.
Would you also say that if *your* government would jail people for disagreeing with the government, and someone in Europe would say it is a bad day for democracy when a government uses that kind of methods? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
