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To: Snowshoe who wrote (22280)	8/7/2002 1:57:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Snowshoe, Yeah, but Poms can smoke dope and don't need a licence. Americans get shot down over Bolivia [or wherever it was] just on the hint that they might have been close to dope. Television is such a mind pollutant that it's quite sensible to license it. Choosing dope or television for my children I'd go for the dope because after they got sick of it, their brains would revert to normal [if they could be induced to suck it in at all]. Mqurice

To: Snowshoe who wrote (22280)	8/7/2002 2:02:58 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Universal pay tv is all.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (22280)	8/7/2002 6:23:21 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>AC, these security hassles are trivial. Americans have the most freedom of anyone on earth<< True enough, but there's a sub-species of human in every country, homo regulatus, that believes you can never have enough rules. These people gravitate towards state and federal government and the academic and legal professions (most Congressmen are lawyers - now you know why - they just love rules). For homo regulatus, an unregulated activity is an abomination, and seeing people having fun doing something that they are neither taxing nor regulating is more than they can stand. It's up to us independent-minded freedom fighters to hold back homo regulatus, or we will suffocate under an ever increasing blanket of bullshit. (They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers and so forth). >>In Britain, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LICENSE TO WATCH TV!!!<< I know, I escaped from Britain twenty years ago. Britain is overrun by homo regulatus and for the most part, that's just the way the Brits like it. Have you noticed that Britain has been on the winning side in every war in which it has participated since 1066? Ever wonder why?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (22280)	8/7/2002 7:57:48 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Snowshoe, <<Americans have the most freedom of anyone on earth>> This is not true. Hong Kong is number uno, as ranked by Americans, period, full stop, for all the good reasons. Chugs, Jay from Money Mountain Hong Kong, next to Freedom Mountain Kowloon