On Feb 19, 2008 11:26 AM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And to play devil's advocate, there's many foreigners that have no wish to > visit these American soils either. The United States is no saint over the > ages. Hanging slaves, beating women, the KKK, gangsters, fraudulent > businesses, discrimnation ... who knows how many of the decendants or > secret > practitioners or supporters of just these few "evil wrongs" we support > over > time. > > It's all very relative. >
People will always mistreat people, every society will be victimized by that. But one thing that a civilized "country" should have control over, is to ensure that it's citizens are not victimized by their government. Since slavery, the US has generally been good in that area...our government system generally protects it's citizens, including their freedoms. Now....I think you could argue with some validity that some of W's programs have taken quite a bite out of that! -- My word's but a whisper Your deafness, a shout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
