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Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 28 May 2004 16:17:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
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And there’s no denying that convict beginnings has a lot to do with
Australia’s cultural identity, including our general cynicism in relation to
all authority, its motives and its practices.
One of our more endearing qualities ;-)
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Then we may be the same.
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C /be/have been/
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Our FF were very wary of government and set up
our Constitution to basically protect the people’s freedom from the
government they were establishing.
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Too bad we’ve deviated so far from that in the 200+ years since then.
c.f. the Patriot Act for instance.
++Lar (who just got a telemarketing call from the GOP with one of those quasi
surveys... after answering a few questions in completely opposite ways to
what the script predicted, the telemarketer finally asked, “Gee, you’re
not a Republican, are you?”)
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) Then we may be the same. Our FF were very wary of government and set up our Constitution to basically protect the people's freedom from the government they were establishing. Our heritage is colorful, but not for the same reasons as yours;-) (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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