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To: kosta50; mark502inf
Errata: apologies for typos and garbled sentences (it was very late and, against my better judgment, I sent the reply anyway.

Thus, in the paragraph beginning "You say that basic human rights..." the sentence "Cutting through the semantics of what's the diference between taking something away and preventing it from being taken away" should read "Cutting through the semantics of what's the difference between taking something away and preventing it from being being used"

Also the word konstitutibni should be konstitutivni.

19 posted on 06/29/2003 9:17:43 AM PDT by kosta50
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To: kosta50
No problem in understanding that given the context & overall thrust of your remarks. Although the difference between konstitutibni and konstitutivni sure flew right by me! :) Here's an excerpt from a D'nesh D'Souza article:

America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world? The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can "become American."

Don't you think that is a better solution than carving out ethnic cantonments & reservations?

20 posted on 06/29/2003 9:35:56 AM PDT by mark502inf
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