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To: tsigprofit who wrote (5501)1/9/2004 12:03:11 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
I am not particularly interested in setting future policy on the basis of things that may have happened one or two hundred years ago.

Is it your position that we should just toss away all our laws? I doubt it, and won't do the rhetorical violence of trying to claim you think that. But the fact that we may have broken Indian treaties (bringing slaves wasn't illegal, so that's a red herring), or have raised an insurrection against tyrrany, doesn't in my mind mean that we just toss away our current laws.

Nor does, I think, it mean, to get back to my original point, that we punish those who have been waiting for years to enter the country legally and reward those who snuck in illegally. You haven't addressed that point. Would you, please? Do you believe that is a good policy to adopt?
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