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To: rogue yam
1. British Citizens are legally free to travel anywhere in the world. Your Government says you are not. We have chosen these policies through our representatives. We can change them whenever we please.

Well so can Britons with Gun Control. As you say, "We have chosen these policies through our representatives. We can change them whenever we please" The majority want it and if they change their minds they can. No-one is forcing us.

2. What can you say that I cannot? I can say anything I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes. Your speech on many subjects (homosexuality, Naziism, Jews, Islam, etc.) is proscribed by your government without you having any legal recourse.

I can say ANYTHING I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes, so what is your problem? Do you even know what you are talking about?

3. Why is it ok to boycott one totalitarian nation but wrong to boycott another? This is where being sober helps. I never said it was wrong to boycott anyone. Boycott whomever you please! Even us! Jeeze!

You said it was wrong of me to criticise American policy on Cuba as why should Americans help a Government that helps keep people unfree. Well wise up buddy. You buy and use commodities from unfree people all the time so stop being all self-righteous.

550 posted on 05/06/2005 12:01:15 PM PDT by cooper72
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To: cooper72
Well so can Britons with Gun Control. As you say, "We have chosen these policies through our representatives. We can change them whenever we please" The majority want it and if they change their minds they can. No-one is forcing us.

Well, this is fair up to a point. However, the distinction here between our system and yours is that the right to bear arms is explicitly placed in our Constitution and can only be changed by a laborious, time-consuming effort by a large super-majority of States. Sure, it's sort of true that you all could, over time, implement something similar if you managed to get past all of the political roadblocks. But we have it now. In fact, we've had it since 1789.

2. What can you say that I cannot? I can say anything I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes. Your speech on many subjects (homosexuality, Naziism, Jews, Islam, etc.) is proscribed by your government without you having any legal recourse.

I can say ANYTHING I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes, so what is your problem? Do you even know what you are talking about?

Yes I do. I'll just leave you to think whatever you want on this one, though.

3. Why is it ok to boycott one totalitarian nation but wrong to boycott another? This is where being sober helps. I never said it was wrong to boycott anyone. Boycott whomever you please! Even us! Jeeze!

You said it was wrong of me to criticise American policy on Cuba as why should Americans help a Government that helps keep people unfree. Well wise up buddy. You buy and use commodities from unfree people all the time so stop being all self-righteous.

I did not say it was wrong for you to criticise our Cuba policy. I said it was illogical for you to cite our Cuba policy as an example of how Americans are less free than you. The fact that you cannot distinguish between these two widely disparate concepts is further proof of what I charitably characterized as your "drunkenness."

575 posted on 05/06/2005 12:30:18 PM PDT by rogue yam
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