On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:55:08AM -1000, Reese wrote:
> At 11:18 PM 22/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>
> >Last I checked, the U.S. Constitution doesn't say a damn word about
> >my civil rights being lost because I refuse to take a loyalty oath or
> >because I refuse to denounce some members of a group I may have once
> >belonged to or may even still belong to.
>
> Excellent red herring. Again, this didn't occur inside the US, it
> occurred in JAPAN - where they don't have the US Constitution, where
> the reigning government does not recognize civil rights as we under-
> stand them. Nice also, how you try to lump me in with Hua.
Japan may not have the US constitution, but their current constitution
was written by the US government in 1946. The American concepts of
civil rights are most definitely a part of the Japanese constitution.
For those who may be interested:
A short history of the Japanese constitution:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX102.html
Text of the Japanese constitution:
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/ja00000_.html
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