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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (106158)	7/18/2003 4:05:48 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There has never been any confusion as to your points of view. We do not agree on some of them. "Unfortunately, too many groups that X was referring to are completely intolerant and non-democratic. Which means they espouse illegal, unconstitutional, beliefs and seek to coerce those views upon every citizen of the US." I don't believe that forbidding the Nazi party or the Communist party or their variants is productive in a democratic society even though I detest their programs and would fight them if they were to come to power. I just don't believe that they would ever come to power in an open society. But if the government lies to its population about fundamental threats and problems then there is a real possibility that the society will turn to undemocratic systems and reject the Constitution and the D of I. Many Americans are willing to give up certain Bill of Rights freedoms in order to "protect" the country against enemies. This precisely what undemocratic movements want to accomplish, get rid of freedom. As to the Constitution and the D of I I have repeatedly expressed my views of these fundamental documents here.