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To: Dane

I do not think your term means what you think it means, mi amigo. BTW, it's "NON SEQUITUR."

My post was meant with sly humor, as the article and posts (as I saw at that moment in time) contained two similarities to this thread:
1) Criticisms of federal policy under the current administration.
2) No criticisms of Democrats.

On this thread, you have been dismissive of those of us critical of the federal government's handling of immigration law enforcement here in Southern California when the criticisms do not contain equal emphasis on the poor governance provided by Senators Boxer and Feinstein.

Clearly, whether one mentions our two Senators or not has no reflection on the merits of the positions taken by these posters. What if I were to say that you have no standing to be critical of either Boxer of Feinstein because you've never cast a vote for their opponents as I have? That statement would be nonsense and irrelevant to your criticisms against Boxer and Feinstein.

Similarly, whether a poster or radio host actually has a double standard or not has ZERO relevance to the issue at hand. It may go to the integrity of the complainant, but the statements, complaints, and positions stand despite the possible faults of the messenger.

In conclusion, a large majority of your posts on this thread have been non sequiturs, at least by this definition: "NON SEQUITUR [n] a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it." (source: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/non+sequitur)


641 posted on 07/09/2004 8:19:03 AM PDT by ER_in_OC,CA
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To: ER_in_OC,CA
Clearly, whether one mentions our two Senators or not has no reflection on the merits of the positions taken by these posters. What if I were to say that you have no standing to be critical of either Boxer of Feinstein because you've never cast a vote for their opponents as I have? That statement would be nonsense and irrelevant to your criticisms against Boxer and Feinstein.

Similarly, whether a poster or radio host actually has a double standard or not has ZERO relevance to the issue at hand. It may go to the integrity of the complainant, but the statements, complaints, and positions stand despite the possible faults of the messenger

That all sounds nice and fancy, but the real life fact remains that the majority of these posters spitting blood at Hutchinson, get all upset when the real life fact that they don't criticize their elected representative in DC.

Hey I'm used to be attacked as the messenger, to bad John and Ken can't take the heat.

644 posted on 07/09/2004 8:25:00 AM PDT by Dane
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