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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: epicure who wrote (30593)10/1/2001 11:05:47 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I'm not in agreement.
so we aren't "all", nor will we ever be. People are like that.


X, you know perfectly well that I know to make allowances for you and would never say "all." This is what I said.

<<I still say that we've acknowledged it. Do we have to have 100% conformity? Rote mumbling of some mantra? Is it so threatening to the consensus that a handful of intellectuals are expressing a counterpoint? It's their nature and their job to express a counterpoint. There has to be a counterpoint to illuminate and clarify the boundaries of the point.

Those who express the counterpoint out of relativism or universality or simply tolerance or kindness wouldn't personally choose to trade in their tradition to the other.>>

Message 16433654

You see? Nary an "all" in there. Plenty of room for you. Perhaps your comment was, once again, for the consumption of others...

Karen



To: epicure who wrote (30593)10/4/2001 2:35:18 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
Another blast from the past.

Reno Can Be Sued Over Elian Gonzalez Raid, Judge Rules
By TERRY SPENCER
Associated Press Writer

October 3, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT

<snip>The judge also dismissed allegations of excessive force. He ruled the raid was "neither particularly violent, nor was the number of law enforcement officers disproportionate to the ... need to maintain order."
<snip>