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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (103409)	6/29/2003 8:17:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, it's called getting a job: <A formal right to express yourself is meaningless, unless you have the necessities of life, and a basic education, and health care. Starving, sick, illiterate, or penniless people cannot use (or defend) any rights to freedom of expression. So, any society that wants to make freedom real for all its people, has to (one way or another) make sure those needs are met, for everyone. > People have to make sure those needs are met for themselves by doing something useful for other people in exchange for money. They also provide those needs for their children and teach them things so their offspring can also provide for themselves. The freeloader 'rights' mentality is a parasite, cannibal, predator mentality deserving of a bullet through the brain. Humans are about creativity and voluntary exchange of value. Animals are about confiscation, dog eat dog, jungle rules. Too many people still have the animal mentality. When I had nothing, I started working and bought something. It's a very simple process. What governments need to do is protect property rights so that when somebody has worked, some scum doesn't steal it from them. The USA protects property rights in the USA. Saddam didn't in Iraq. Many Iraqis think Americans are not there to protect property rights but to confiscate property, oil, and bully Iraqis. Mqurice