Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [Platt] > All these things free, like "free roads and waterways?" I guess to > you the power to tax is the power to provide freebies. Some "critical > thinking" I must say. Some "liberty." > > [Arlo] > Yes, I'd say public lands, public roads and waterways, public > libraries... all these things increase my liberty, indeed, increase > everyone's liberty. The next time I am basking in the sun on my > little rowboat, with a line in the water, sipping a cold beer in one > of Pennsylvania's wonderful state parks, having driven there on free > roads, maybe reading "I am a Strange Loop" checked out from my local > public library, I'll just smile when I think of how you find all that > "destructive to liberty". And maybe on the way back I'll stop in at a > public museum, since they too destroy my liberty, and take in the > art. All the while breathing the clean air and dipping my feet in the > clear waters, kept this way by government environmental and land > management programs. A threat to liberty? Hehehehe... Liberty to you means comfort and economic freebies (the latter a joke since you pay for them through taxes.) To me, it means freedom from the knock on the door in the middle of the night and the ride to face a firing squad for failure to be politically correct. > [Platt] > Why not tenure for everybody? Is a faculty somehow elite, to be > treated differently than the rest of us peons? Why not tenure for Imus? > > [Arlo] > I don't know. Start an organization to demand tenure for radio talk > show hosts. What do I care? You don't know why there is tenure for faculty? Who does? > [Platt] > And we should let it go at that? Not even an apology from your > precious, protected faculty? > > [Arlo] > I have nothing to apologize for, nor control over those who may. Write to > them. I didn't ask for your apology. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
