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To: Gabz

Incredible as it may seem, they are right.

Anonymous advocate writings were a staple of the Founding Fathers, practiced perhaps most notably by Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.

The blog is no more than a 21st century version of their anonymous pamphlets.


3 posted on 08/13/2005 7:35:14 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

Yes, it is incredible...but good to see them doing the correct thing for a change.


6 posted on 08/13/2005 7:38:56 AM PDT by Gabz (Smoking ban supporters are in favor of the Kelo ruling.)
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To: highball

Defamation would be so hard to prove. Could you imagine how fast the FBI would be up your ass if you published an anonymous pamphlet calling for revolution?


11 posted on 08/13/2005 7:42:48 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: highball

Even the "Federalist Papers" were published anonomyoously, uner the pen name of "Publius."


21 posted on 08/13/2005 8:35:42 AM PDT by libstripper
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