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To: x
Believe in liberty and rights and justice, and you have people telling you that they can only be achieved in a global or transnational framework.

But don't let them get away with this, x. An assertion is not a proof. Ask them to explain to you why they think justice and liberty and rights "can only be achieved in a global or transnational framework." When they can't answer that, you might suggest that a reasonable person might think that to consolidate all power in a global hegemon is to reduce the power of individuals everywhere, including their own power. Ask them how arbitrary, "one-size-fits-all rules" delivered "top-down" and enforced by an unaccountable autocrat increases their rights or their liberty. You might also remind them that politics is about power, not about truth -- and maybe they need to "put that in their pipe, and smoke it." :^)

78 posted on 12/16/2002 6:56:21 AM PST by betty boop
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To: betty boop
Good and important thread.
89 posted on 12/16/2002 5:23:34 PM PST by x
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