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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3567)	5/4/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13062

I have never been to Cuba. I have no personal knowledge of conditions there. It's not up to me to say whether it is good or bad; it's up to the people, who put Castro into power by force and can remove him the same way if they feel the need to. As to all the people fleeing Cuba, let's not forget that not long ago many young American men fled the United States to avoid involuntary servitude in the killing fields of Vietnam. Did that make the US automatically an evil system? The grass often seems greener over the fence. Whether it is or not is not always so easily determined. I love this country. But I don't pretend it's perfect, and I don't pretend that it's right for everybody. And I do NOT support our imposing our lifestyle choices or values on others. That is greatly anti-libertarian.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3567)	5/4/2000 1:54:00 PM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

Charley <We're talking about a communist dictatorship. What choices does Juan Miguel Gonzalez have down there? The boy is going to a place where he will be a prisoner. Why would a libertarian favor that?> As usual, Chris, a lawyer, looks at libertarian issues as about only about laws and not liberty. Chris is confusing the "live and let live" doctrine as grounds for suffering tyrants. However, the tyrant doesn't care about "living and letting live". Remember appeasement of Hitler?Remember "Detente".? This kind of moral relativism is responsible for much of our woes today. And it is not what libertarianism is about. SO to Chris I say again -Only free people can live and let live. It is a logical impossibility for slave to do it. And, Juan is a slave. Elian doesn't have to be. Ciao, Daniel