RE: this applies to Iran and Iraq as well!

["Melynda Huskey" <melynda_h@hotmail.com>]

At 09:22 AM 09/22/2001 -0500, P C wrote:
>I see a lot of people who come to this country, enjoy all of its
>benefits and freedoms, and then ridicule the hell out of it any >chance 
>they get.  A lot of people are sick of this.

If I'm not mistaken, one reason all of us immigrants (and we are all 
immigrants except the Nez Perce around here) came to this country was the 
lure of constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech, which included our 
right and responsibility to scrutinize and critique every action undertaken 
by our representatives in the government.  Ridicule, dissent, and contention 
are, as they say, features, not bugs, in the system.  As for getting sick of 
it, well, the alternative is one I'd really choke on:  totalitarianism.

Melynda Huskey
melynda_h@hotmail.com

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