SOCIETY: Re: The privatization of public security in South America

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 08:16:04 MDT


>From: Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au>

>I really wince when some of the more patriotic on this list say
>that USA is the most powerful country because it is the land of
>the free. Sounds so much like those British who were still singing
>"Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves" when their colonial
>empire was going down the drain... and the Romans at the height of
>their domination, feeling that they were the greatest.

Gosh, I must have missed that post.... Who exactly was it who said
this?

Our old buddy strawman?

Brian

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