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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (8940)	7/27/1999 9:52:00 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

Larry, I don't have time to reply fully right now, but I will at some point in the not too distant future. However, I must reply to your comments that "I have the sense that the freedom upon which this nation (the USA) was forged means rather little to you" and "Do I presume that the fact that the government in Taipai receives the sanction of its populace through the medium of the electoral process means nothing to you? Nor, I'm getting the impression, does the fact that the dictators in Beijing feel no need to obtain the consent of so much as a plurality of those it governs concern you. I do wonder wherein lies your moral compass". These are the kind of comments that others have found objectionable. There is no call for you to "wonder wherein lies [my] moral compass". Mine or any other thread contributor. You know very little about us, just as we know very little about you. From comments like these, and comments that appear to me and, I would guess, others, that appear to glorify the past of the US, ignoring the many misdeeds done both by individal people who settled this country and by the governments of both the country and the individual states. Now, I would NOT say that the misdeeds are the entire story, but I also would not say that the US is somehow simply the great moral and political example for the rest of the world to follow, as you appear to (please forgive me if I am mistaken in this impression). I do not even believe that this country has been simply, unambiguously, a shining moral light in the recent past, say, since 1960, or even for that matter to jump over Vietnam since 1975. That isn't to say that it has been simply or unambiguously "evil" or "wicked" or whatever other term you might use either. Sometimes governments are unambiguously evil, though they rarely begin that way, and they all have their rationalizations for whatever "evil" they end up doing. More often, they are backed into a corner by events, and then become worse than they have to be. In any case, those comments are objectionable in this context and uncalled for. Sam