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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (136645)	6/14/2004 5:31:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<It's not sufficient to merely claim that there has been a change in administration. It must be a change in the actual nature of the government, and it must only be done when such a change results in a more democratic, representative, and tolerant government.> Hawk, I started off thinking that, but on reflection ended up with the position that governments are unfit to be borrowers. Lenders should be aware of that fact. Democratic governments are still just dictatorships. Dictatorships by the majority [or not even majority in many cases, such as NZ's - just a majority in parliament]. It seems unreasonable that negroes in the segregationist south, always outvoted, should pay for loans which were used to fund the governments which abused them. I don't see why conscientious objectors in democracies should repay the loans which were used to keep them in prison because the mob didn't like them. Mqurice