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To: waverider who wrote (89773)	12/10/2000 4:21:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Actually, the foundation of freedom was more an English phenomenon than American. Slavery and segregation were popular in the USA until quite recent times. I am old enough to remember segregation in the USA. I admit to some extent I'm kidding. And of course, for the time, it [the constitution] was a fine achievement. Zealotry of any colour is a bit scary to me. That's why I like to point out that even a hero's feet are still on the ground. The original constitution got a lot of amendments because it wasn't very good. It was too simplistic. I think that's logical enough. For a wet Monday anyway. I think everyone makes a lot of mistakes, but some, such as Irwin Jacobs, make far fewer and achieve far more than others of us between blunders. Of course the founding fathers and mothers of the United States deserve adulation - but I heard Thomas Jefferson kept slaves too, as was the fashion of the day by the ruling people. Life, liberty and the pursuit of slaves! It's very hard not to have unfortunate contrasts like that when one is a person. Fortunately for me, I'm not famous so my many defects can lie quietly ignored by the seething mass of humanity. 200 years from now, many of our ideas will seem quaint or absurd. Even CDMA might be out of vogue. But it IS a fascinating election. Gore would be better for CDMA [I think]. Mqurice