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To: tejek who wrote (266593)	1/13/2006 6:40:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575848

I am not surprised........apparently, you don't believe gov'ts and/or their leaders should be held accountable for their behavior or lack thereof. I do. What is apparent to you, apparently has little connection to reality, at least when you are thinking about or discussing my viewpoints, opinions and statements. Even if the government did encourage immigration, and more specifically they they encouraged immigration of Arabs or Lebanese people within the past couple of generations (I'll take your word for it that they did), that doesn't make the Lebanese Australians the victims of the government. If I owned a large plot of land, and I let you build a house on it, and then you where attacked by my neighbor, you would be the victim of the neighbor not my victim, despite the fact that without my actions you probably wouldn't have been a victim. The same holds true for the government of Australia. They didn't attack the Lebanese. The Lebanese are not victims of the Australian government. Government should be held accountable for its behavior, but not for other people's behavior, at least not when it didn't call for or encourage the behavior. Tim