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To: AC Flyer who wrote (49514)	5/5/2004 12:34:50 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

First I heard that the Oath of Allegiance obliges one and all to respect Bush etc. Please see Doonesbury of May 3. About racism, according to you it is impossible to characterize anybody as racist, since the first person to call X a racist may not do so as there is no other post calling X a racist. Proof by mathematical induction. QED Unfortunately, it is even possible for a person to be a scoundrel and yet not be a racist.

To: AC Flyer who wrote (49514)	5/5/2004 3:05:38 PM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 74559

Yeah, Yiwu is extraordinarily noisy and represent the 5% of population. For most of us, we are just mainstream majority. Only from criticisms and dissents can there be improvements. They could be on such trivial things such as light bulbs burning out after 300 hours of light, as one example. If there is no such criticisms and dissents, and the majority ruled or had full control, there would be no Magna Carta, no Boston Tea Party, and no American independence. So, we can separate those who exist with dynamics for betterment of the future, and those who exist to be lemmings of the status quo.

To: AC Flyer who wrote (49514)	5/5/2004 10:57:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

ACF, in defence of Yiwu the racist, Yiwu the arrogant and Yiwu the ignorant, I think Malcolm, Bubba and other have called me a racist too. Of course I'm not, depending on what twisted definition one chooses, but when people want denigrating labels to hook onto somebody, they love the "racist" one as it's a no-brainer argument winner. As soon as you label somebody a racist, it means their arguments and reasoning can be ignored. I hasten to add that I wasn't using denigrating in a racist way and was not labeling all Chinese as no-brainers [just Yiwu]. I'm sure many Chinese have got brains. Some of my best friends are Chinese. To show how liberal I am, I also think they should enjoy at least the same human rights as say, American prisoners of war in concentration camps, which are better than people enjoy in China [according to the USA]. A pile of naked Yiwus would be a sight to behold. If China and Yiwu attack Taiwan, I wonder if they will stack up naked democracy prisoners. Mqurice