From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 08:03:05 MDT
>From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
>No lies here, Mike. No bullshit, either. There is a sincere
>difference of opinion. I do appreciate the motives of people
>like you and Brian to do what you can for the country you
>believe in, but most people on this list (alas) don't have
>countries that they believe in.
That is the crux of the problem.
It is of course both painfull and infuriating to those of us who
have paid a heavy price for our citizenship to see this country run
down by people who have paid nothing for theirs.
We have a saying for it: "For those who have fought to defend it,
life has a flavor the protected shall never know."
This is not a new problem and one I consider often, ever since it
was presented to me by Heinlein in "Starship Troopers."
Heinlein's reasoning of course is that people don't respect things
they haven't had to pay dearly for. In "Starship Troopers" you
couldn't vote unless you had done a period of Federal Service.
Brian
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