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To: Bridge Player who wrote (76407)	7/26/2008 4:32:59 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 543222

>>The paragraph by de Tocqueville could easily have been written by Ayn Rand in Atlas. And it is very much what is happening today in America.<< BP - Suddenly I realize that you are absolutely right. You know, there is a large movement in this country that wants to stop some pairs of adult citizens from marrying each other. There are some who want to pass Constitutional Amendments institutionalizing that kind of discrimination. Imagine that! And they want to stop people from exercising their right of free speech by, say, burning a flag. There are other people who want to breach the separation of Church and State, and have Creationism taught in the public schools as science. Imagine them wanting to foist their agenda on other people like that! Then there are those who say that our government should be able to detain any person they want to detain, for any length of time, without having to show cause, without being subject to oversight, and without allowing the detainee to even know the evidence against him. Hard to believe there are people who say they value freedom, then want to violate the principles our nation was founded on like that. It's enough to make an American spit. - Allen