Stewart Stremler wrote: >>That would make sense if all countries agreed to respect human rights >>and freedom. No other country has as strong a history in this area >>as US. > > What color is the sky in your world?
He never said the US was perfect. I think the implication is that we are better than a lot of others in this area. This seems to be a constant problem in these sort of debates. "Are you saying that GEORGE BUSH is a saint?!?!" Uh...no. That's not what he is saying. > Besides we're not the _only_ freedom-loving people in the world. We just > emphasize different freedoms. (We love freedom so much that we make > sure our corporations have the freedom to sue people in other countries. > We love freedom so much we'll take it away from people in order to give > it to them, even though they didn't ask us to.) Everyone claims to love freedom. Even in Vietnam they say they love freedom. Even the communists in Vietnam say they love freedom. And many of them honestly believe they are free. Of course they only believe that because their government run schools and newspapers tell them that. > Imagine if the average american newspaper had a topless woman on page 3. It sure would make a lot more young men willing to risk their lives for their country! :) <yakov>Boobies with my headlines? WHAT A COUNTRY!</yakov> > We need to solve the routing problem. Freenet takes the malicious router problem very seriously and does everything it can to account for it in their design. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
