-- On 23 Oct 2004 at 19:25, J.A. Terranson wrote:
There are all "givens" to the rest of us - I am trying to fit these arguments into Donald's Reality Distortion Field.
Is it also a "given" to you, as it is to Tyler, that the US attacked North Korea, and that the reason for this attack was to make Koreans poor so that Americans could be rich? Is it also a given to you that the CIA trained Bin Laden? Is it also a given to you that the CIA installed Saddam? Is it a given to you, as it is to Tyler, that the countries on the communist side of the former iron curtain were more successful economically than their neighbors or countrymen on the other side? Is it a given to you that Jews did not turn up for work in the two towers the day they fell? Is it a given to you that Arbenz was democratically elected, and that the guerrilas in Guatemala were an indigenous popular movement that could have won free and fair elections had they been permitted? Is it a given to you that Alger Hiss was framed? Perhaps you need to check some of these givens. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2xBHaKKtew47vYubi0WVdchRmiM1osWLaPLEM3IJ 4th8Ep6rf2PcPWOoYxyby9cpMSlFehq6Z+8yzjPuc