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Loud music? On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Ehud Gavron wrote: > When the United States invaded a foreign territory, laid siege to its > ruler's house, played blaring loud music at it, then broke in, shackled > him, and took him to Florida, I thought that was interesting. > > When they took this foreign ruler and froze his funds and gave him public > defenders, I thought that was interesting. > > When they charged him with crimes committed not by him and on his own > foreign territory (but which impacted the United States), I thought that > was interesting. > > If the United States is the conscience of the world, then yes, we should > stop the PRC from setting up this network, prevent those Cubans from taking > over companies and not giving us Cubanos, and arrest President Noriega > ("Strongman" is the title the US govt. uses, but as I last thought, that's > the guy in the circus that lifts weights...) for drug trafficking in Panama. > > If the United States is NOT the conscience of the world, then NO we do not > need to go arrest foreign leaders, we do NOT need to tell Sadam whom and whom > not he can attack, and we do NOT confuse Bay Networks and PRC with more > regulatory tripe. > > I vote nay. > But then I didn't buy my son an internet provider business either. > > Ehud > > > > >Ronald Barron Yokubaitis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm...........Do the same considerations apply to > >>BUYING from the PRC? > > >Please. The original speech was not about trade with PRC which > >is unquestionably good and desireable; but about cooperation > >with an organization whose _proclaimed_ goal is to build a > >politically censored version of Internet, and make uncensored > >networks completely illegal in PRC. > > >--vadim > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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