From: gubnah_azrael@gov.su.us (The Voltairian™/Black Jester™/Closet Libertarian™/Riley Bitterman™) Newsgroups: can.politics,bc.politics,ont.politics Subject: Re: B.C.-Based Columnist A Voice Of Common Sense From Canada's Left Coast [LIBTR] Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:26:39 GMT Organization: Closet Libertarian™/Black Magus™/Bible Thumper™/Blow Load™ Reply-To: spyhunter-navyseal@gov.su.us Message-ID: <3d8d9ad7.28996376@news.lightspeed.ca> References: <3D8C8E01.7F376E83@rogers.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial74.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial74.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Trace: rsl2.rslnet.net 1032690993 vandial74.lightspeed.bc.ca (22 Sep 2002 03:36:33 -0700) Lines: 78 Path: rsl2.rslnet.net Xref: rsl2.rslnet.net bc.politics:111719 On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:19:21 GMT, Erik Trammel wrote: >Elizabeth Nixon is a refreshing corrective to the loony >leftists like Karen Gordon constantly >ranting on the Usenet. This is demonstrated in Ms. Nixon's >latest column titled, "Pacifism is disguised timidity". She's half right; The Liberals are bad and the NDP aint good. She isn't loony as such; I know loony and she's no loon, and at least she is asking questions here and their and making commentaries about a political figure or issue, rather than bitching about a looney right wing fascist. Docta Admr. Gov. Count Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; PhG™/D Writer, Humorist and Everything else under the moon. [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL] Vancouver, Neo Sumer/Olympia, Washington/Who knows where else... The My Ego Times: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/ Archives: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/archives/ Hall of Shame: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/TMET.PHoS/ Forums: http://myegotimes.community.everyone.net/ Dictionary: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/dictionary/ Election 2002: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/election.links/2002/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep." -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian (in fact 2)" -- Gölök Buday, April of 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...I would have wished that no one in the state that could claim he was above the law, and that no one from outside the state could dictate a law [Fuck the UN] that the state was obliged to recognize. For regardless of how the government is formally constituted, if there is a single man not subject to the law, all the others are necessarily at that man' mercy." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...It follows that if in such a fortunate situation it (the country/ state) would have nothing to fear but itself, and if citizens were trained in arms, it would be more for maintaining that soldiery spirit and noble courage that are so well suited for freedom and cultivate the taste for it rather than from the necessity for it's citizens' actual defence. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Freedom can only exist if all laws apply to all people." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; possible paraphrase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Think, it isn't illegal yet." -- George Clinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PS I am not, nor have been, known as Grant Buday PPS Not Che from che-lives.com † Download Free Agent ftp://ftp.forteinc.com/pub/free_agent/fa32-121.exe Free Agent Product PageFree Agent Product Page http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm 63 Line sig File; Not 1300