From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
To: “James A. Donald” <jamesd@netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-11-22 04:13:23 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 20:13:23 PST
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 20:13:23 PST
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Admiral Inman
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On Mon, 21 Nov 1994, James A. Donald wrote:
> Black Unicorn writes
> > Wow, all that from a few lines of original text? (Oh well).
>
> Our enemies are industriously corrupting the language in order
> to make the ideas of liberty inexpressible. In particular
> they are seeking to make the concepts behind the declaration
> of independence and the bill of rights unspeakably and therefore,
> they hope, unthinkable.
>
> Thus it is often necessary to do a lengthy exegesis, in order
> to explain what they are really saying -- see for example
> certain recent flame wars.
>
Wow, all that from a few lines of original text? :)
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> We have the right to defend ourselves and our
> property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald
> are. True law derives from this right, not from
> the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@acm.org
>
>
073BB885A786F666 nemo repente fuit turpissimus - potestas scientiae in usu est
6E6D4506F6EDBC17 quaere verum ad infinitum, loquitur sub rosa - wichtig!
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