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To: unclewest who wrote (13381)	12/9/2001 5:21:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Louis Brandeis wrote... "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal...well-meaning, but without understanding."> Especially, zealous people who want to tell other people what to do with their lives. Such as, "Everyone should be conscripted into the armed forces to serve for a couple of years and do as I say". It would of course be for their own good and also the good of "the country", that ill-defined mish-mash of competing interests which too often serves rascals who cloak themselves in the flag and boast how patriotic they are. True love burns brightly in the heart and there's no need for boast and bombast. Like gravity, true love silently holds the world together and literally creates reality. Freedom is not compulsory military service. Mqurice