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To: The Philosopher who wrote (4966)	2/27/2003 3:17:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

If we're agreed there, then there is the question whether a person can be held accountable for the political views of their democratically elected government. Yes, we've been agreed there. I think we were also agreed that a person can be held accountable for his government when at war in that all citizens of the opposing state are targets, whether they are party to the offense that prompted the war or not. That's the way war works. But we're not at war. So long as we're not, seems to me the rules of civilized social behavior still apply. To me that means that thou shalt not be rude to, discriminate against, attack, etc. persons simply because they were born French. I'd subsume that under the bigotry umbrella. If this guy grabbed a Frenchman and dragged him around the parking lot of the pizza parlor tied to his car, would that be less of a hate crime than the incident in Texas? Let's be clear -- the guy is not against Frenchmen because they're Frenchmen I don't think that's clear at all. His sign said no French allowed. As I said earlier, he can change his sign to exclude those who don't support the US and I will drop my charge of bigotry. As long as he excludes all French, my charge stands.