[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Russell Senior
seniorr at aracnet.com
Tue Jun 18 21:42:12 UTC 2002
>>>>> "Scot" == Craighead, Scot D <craighead.scot at vectorscm.com> writes:
Russell> I didn't "imply" it, I "drew attention to it". You said
Russell> (paraphrasing), I don't want my tax money spent on something
Russell> I don't like (e.g. multi-lingual government publications). I
Russell> said (again paraphrasing) maybe they (non-english speakers)
Russell> don't want *their* tax money spent on something you _do_
Russell> like. That, to you, one is legitimate and the other is not
Russell> indicates that you think you occupy some "favored" position
Russell> and that what you want should take precedence over what
Russell> anyone else wants. In short, "that doesn't scale!" It isn't
Russell> "equal protection under the law" any more then claiming it is
Russell> "okay" for boy A to take a piece of candy from boy B, but
Russell> _not_ okay for boy B to take a piece of candy from boy A.
Scot> It does scale. I am a citizen of the United States. I have the
Scot> right to try to effect the laws of the state I live in.
What if the non-english speaker *IS* a citizen? There are lots of
them, you know.
Wait, I know, there are more of "us" than "them" right now, so lets
just vote, right? Suppose we all vote to tax redheads at double the
ordinary rate, or require them to hop on one foot for a couple hours a
day. "We" have a majority on that. They aren't really part of our
culture anyway. They all come from Scotland or something. Majority
rules, right? What is wrong with that?
Scot> A foriegn national does not have any right to dictate what our
Scot> laws should be.
BTW, does it bother you at all that _our_ goverment's sole goal around
the world is *precisely* to tell other governments what their laws
should be? We've got our grubby mitts *all over* this Loya Girga
thing, and I only mention _that_ to be topical.
--
Russell Senior ``The two chiefs turned to each other.
seniorr at aracnet.com Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible
profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
extremely unusual.' ''
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