What does it matter????? Enough is enough.
geo2
On 24 Sep 2000, at 12:47, Matt Bachofen wrote:
From: "Matt Bachofen" <mbachofen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] RE: RE: Truth -- Warning! *OT*
Date sent: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:47:22 -0500
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> Rob Burns wrote:
> "We enjoy personal rights and freedom of
> movement unsurpassed by any other nation in the world."
>
> Robert, above is my quote of your original statement. I suppose I am
> incorrect. You must not have meant, as I read: We (U.S. Citizens)
> enjoy personal rights and freedom of movement (anywhere one would wish
> to move) unsurpassed by any other nation in the world.
>
> I guess I didn't understand that you meant only those people ". .
> .filling up the old jalopy with gas and going anywhere in the US"
>
> Your _original_ statement certainly didn't indicate you meant only
> within the United States. Robert, I have been swayed to your way of
> thinking!
>
> I believe that a US citizen has unsurpassed, by any other nationality,
> rights of movement within the United States.
>
> And a Swiss citizen has _more_ freedom of movement within Switzerland,
> and a German within Germany. I'm so glad we spent this time working
> out that statement of such banal self-evidence.
>
> The question is: What about real freedom of movement? Going anywhere
> one wishes to travel. This is what I questioned. I continue to
> question how an American can believe your original statement, as I
> read it, which many Americans do believe.
>
> M. Bachofen
>
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