[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

Craighead, Scot D craighead.scot at vectorscm.com
Tue Jun 18 21:21:18 UTC 2002


>I didn't "imply" it, I "drew attention to it".  You said
>(paraphrasing), I don't want my tax money spent on something I don't
>like (e.g. multi-lingual government publications).  I said (again
>paraphrasing) maybe they (non-english speakers) don't want *their* tax
>money spent on something you _do_ like.  That, to you, one is
>legitimate and the other is not indicates that you think you occupy
>some "favored" position and that what you want should take precedence
>over what anyone else wants.  In short, "that doesn't scale!"  It
>isn't "equal protection under the law" any more then claiming it is
>"okay" for boy A to take a piece of candy from boy B, but _not_ okay
>for boy B to take a piece of candy from boy A.

It does scale.  I am a citizen of the United States.  I have the right to
try to effect the laws of the state I live in.  A foriegn national does not
have any right to dictate what our laws should be.  




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