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To: carranza2 who wrote (110537)	8/9/2003 2:52:40 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

' recent punctilious insistence on civil liberties a bit hypocritical.' Ahem, yes .... it was well into the nineteen sixties before an individual with indigenous blood could get a cup of coffee in an Arizona diner, no matter how decorated he was with war medals stamped USofA .... a very caucasian looking friend tells a story of driving from BC to Texas at the time of Mount St Helens blowing up, which was only twenty something years ago, and he got taken to task for talking to a black guy, when he reciprocated with his own attitudes on the matter several of the locals got aroused, and told him in these exact words, don't you tell us how to treat our niggers Both mexicanos and canadians, along with almost all other nations on this planet, consider abhorrent the idea of the state murdering its unarmed prisoners ..... very few countries continue this barbaric practice, it's pretty much China, Lower Drooling Slobbovia, and the USofA .... así es, amigo, maybe we can't control each and every individual before his murders, but some of us are able to control our governments in this respect Back to attacking Iraq, and the vote of México on UNSC, yes what you cite was a factor, but it worked in precisely the opposite way, it [along with several similar issues] was what was making Fox frantic to find something of common ground with Bush, he was trying to salvage some bit of useful cooperation out of Dubya's juntos podemos line ..... but no way, by then the neocons ruled, and if Dubya had ever genuinely meant juntos podemos, it just didn't matter any more, no se puede I agree with you here - #reply-19191987 ... and in another i can't find now, where you favour self-regulation ... i never use the ignore button, but with some posters i skim through their stuff pretty fast ..... the worst sin is to be boring, imho, and the second worst is trying to evade boredom by straying off-topic .... sometimes i type out whole pithy and extremely witty retorts, chuckle at them, and then hit the back button instead of submit, that seems to work as stress relief -g-