Hi Ray, Brief extracts from yours: At 12:56 24/01/02 -0500, you wrote: (REH) <<<< First I wondered if that Liberal club was what we call conservative here in the US since, as I posted earlier, the term is all screwed up and stuck in history. So maybe I could ask you to define terms here in the beginning. Were you Liberal in the US Pragmatic sense or what were you? What were the founding principles? >>>>
In the period (60s and 70s) that Harry and I were members of the Liberal Party in England, we would have been regarded in America as somewhat to the left of the Democrats. (REH) <<<< For example Mike Gurstien's comment about the roots of England's health crisis being locked in being "English" as an example. Personally, I wonder if there is some way we could keep the culture but get rid of the bad side of the class structure. Sort of like the Queen Knighting the Beatles. >>>> See my reply to Mike Gurstein. (REH) <<<< It has helped me immensely to know about Keith's business and when I've found him difficult, because of my interpretion (personal historical genocide filter) of his words which are the same as the people who destroyed my family, people and culture, I just put it together with him singing and doing a good job saving all of those great masterworks for the future and his action helps temper my experience of his words. Obviously there is a human being there that I am missing as I hear the same words as were used by the people who "did in" my family three generations ago. >>>> I'm at a loss to know why my words have any relationship to the attitude of those who " "did in" [your] family three generations ago". As mentioned before, my ancestors (maybe six to eight generations ago) were also "did in" by land owners who expropriated large chunks of common land for arable farming. Within the context of English politics I'm a Republican -- that is, anti-Royalist, anti-landowning aristocracy. Keith __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
