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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (114791)	9/14/2003 10:21:38 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Contrary to popular American ignorance, the USA did not invent freedom and is not the main defender of it. The USA is actually quite a repressive place. Freedom has been under siege around the world for decades, including in the USA, as Big Government has filtered into every corner of life and their ability to do so greatly enhanced. Goodness Maurice... What color is the sky in your world?.. :0) The US was the first democratic society since Greece and the Roman Republic, and within the space of 100 years we saw dozens of other former monarchies had became democracies (or at least experimented with the concept). Furthermore, I believe the US differentiated from Greece and Rome by introducing the concept of inalienable rights into their governmental system. Thus, rather than freedom having been under seige for a mere few decades, it's been suppressed by totalitarian monarchs and theocratic regimes for hundreds of years. And so long as we continue to hundreds of thousands of people clammering to immigrate to the US, I have to believe that the US is NOT quite as repressive as you would like to have us believe. Hawk