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To: Ophiucus
The Amish are forced to live in our society much as the Natives were.
They need to litigate to be able to keep their schools, farms, and way of life.
Why don't you think a little harder about our sub-societies.
42 posted on 04/02/2004 7:20:55 PM PST by Pafreedom
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To: Pafreedom
The Amish are forced to live in our society much as the Natives were.

Oh give me a break! Have I wandered into DUmmy land?

When was there ever an Amish Trail of Tears? Did the US Cavalry round up stray Amish and herd the back to the reservation? Did I miss the last great campaign of Geronimo the Amish?

The Amish made a deliberate choice in life and belief to remain in a arbitrary semi-technical world of extremely slow change of a devotion through simplicity in life in the face of an ever complex world. There is no "forced to live in our society." They have communities from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and Illinois, some 22 states as well as Canada and Europe - and guess what, like any community, these communities have neighbors. No community is isolated and the Amish have never wanted to be isolated on their own secluded island. If anything, it would kill the tourist business.

They need to litigate to be able to keep their schools, farms, and way of life.

Past tense - they did go to court to essentially home school. They won. Game over. There's no big dramatic battle of oppression.

Why don't you think a little harder about our sub-societies.

There are no "sub-societies" except in the Leftist goal to Balkanize and destroy the one American society. In that society, one can find groups of people freely associating with each other as they see fit. No big force issues.

Perhaps you should think away from the Left and these little PC melodramas.

54 posted on 04/03/2004 3:21:55 AM PST by Ophiucus
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