[90598] in Cypherpunks
Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Galt)
Thu Nov 20 21:03:37 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:29:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
cc: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>,
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199711202253.RAA22495@users.invweb.net>
Reply-To: Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>
> >What are your grounds for restricting the rights of your neighbors to
> >contract with Mexicans or whoever else they care to? Buy, sell, hire,
> >rent, etc.
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> When you have +1,000,000 Mexicans comming across the boarder a year that
> is called an Invasion. When the Federal Government refuses to defend the
> boarders and forces the citizens of the states to aid in this invasion
> this is called Treason.
After all it is *very* important to have the Federal Government defend
boarders against exploitation by their landlords! :-)
Seriously though. Getting all emotionally tied up in concepts like
"defending the borders" and "forcing" citizens to "aid in this invasion"
may sound good, but whose land is it anyway? I don't own a single acre,
not even a single square foot of land in the entire southwestern/western
part of the North American continent.
What gives the hoodlums in Washington, D.C. the right to draw a line on a
map and try to control people's travel across that line?
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Jon Galt
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