on 25/7/02 5:14 pm, Rod D. Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 7/24/02 19:09, Harry Zink at [EMAIL PROTECTED] deftly typed: > >>> The fact that Americans allow Nazis to march in their streets is one of many >>> reasons we *do* have a free country. >> >> A "free" country that, nevertheless, does seem it's okay to tell other >> countries who to vote for, or who to elect, and when coercion tactics don't >> work, places that country's *DEMOCRATICALLY* elected President on the Black >> list? >> >> How does that fit into the picture you just painted? >> >> (I'm talking about President Kurt Waldheim in the 80s, and J�rg Haider quite >> recently, of Austria - albeit the 'Nazi' allegations towards President >> Waldheim have been disproven multiple times, he's still on the Black List >> and unable to visit the US). >> >> A "free" country? > > > So democracy requires that we agree with the judgments of foreigners? No, > it's exactly the opposite: freedom means having the right and ability to > think, say and do what *you* want, not what other people (or other countries) > tell you to do. If we wanted to sanction Austria, or if I want to boycott > Microsoft, who's business is that?...
<snip> Hmm... and there was me thinking that, post September 11th, American's were reconsidering isolationism. Perhaps not. ;-) BTW, please no one see this comment as in anyway agreeing with or being allied with Harry Zink. Thanks) Peter. (a foreigner) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
