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To: Aurelius
I'm sorry, but from my point of view you are the one being conned.

Your point of view is based in fantasy and myth.

One loser in the CSA rant is poor old George Washington.

I mean, everything he wanted, and stood for was wrecked by secession. His words seemingly hold no sway with neo-rebs at all. It's really sort of sad that he is ignored so by you and the other neo-rebs.

Why do you so thoroughly discount everything he stood for?

Walt

96 posted on 05/17/2002 7:06:37 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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To: WhiskeyPapa
"Why do you so thoroughly discount everything he stood for?"

I don't discount everything he stood for, and, as usual, your allegation that I do is utterly without basis. I applaud his famous observation:

"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master."

Unfortunately, when he became president the government became, in his hands, a fearful master. He saw fit to use it as an instrument of coercion and exploitation. As in the matter of the whisky tax, for example.

99 posted on 05/17/2002 7:55:57 AM PDT by Aurelius
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To: WhiskeyPapa
"Your point of view is based in fantasy and myth."

From your point of view.

158 posted on 05/17/2002 11:58:20 AM PDT by Aurelius
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