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Subject: Re: ATT: jms Why do you oppose a war agaist Iraq?
Date: 22 Jan 2003 18:53:01 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>THouse protesters last Saturday were Socialist
>Anti-Americans. 

This will be my last word to you, because as far as I'm concerned, you have
just disqualified yourself in this discussion with that remark. 

This is the same kind of bullshit red baiting we saw in the McCarthy period. 
There are those who support the Administration on one side, traitors or spies
on the other, nothing in between.

There is such a thing as the loyal opposition.  We are *supposed* to be able to
dissent, that's how a democracy (or a republic in this case) is supposed to
work.  If disagreement = being branded a traitor, then we are no longer what we
were fighting for in the first place.

Your statement is a disgrace to what the founding fathers intended, and a
dishonor to the country.  You should be ashamed of yourself.

Mark this as my last reply to you.

 jms

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