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To: average joe who wrote (1000)	9/13/2002 1:40:11 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 8683

joe blow, I'm talking about Jeffersonian ideals. Your distorted view of the world is anathema to me. I think our Founding Fathers did a bang up job of creating a nation and a code of law and ethics to guide it. Ayn Rand represents someone who was incapable of thinking about community as a value. Her harshly social-Darwinian views were suitable only for a rapacious breed of exploiters and no basis for a just society. Orwell was attempting to warn the world about the dangers that a madman like the anti-christic Shrub presents to the world when lunacy is ripe. As it most certainly is today. -Ray

To: average joe who wrote (1000)	9/13/2002 4:51:19 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 8683

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connections as possible." --George Washington, 1797 The US must "Act for ourselves and not for others," by forming an "American character wholly free of foreign attachments." --George Washington "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." --Thomas Jefferson, 1801 Inaugural Address "Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition and usurp the standards of freedom." --John Quincy Adams 1821 inaugural address "The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation." --President John Quincy Adams