CDR: Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

petro petro at bounty.org
Tue Oct 10 21:56:20 PDT 2000


>At 1:22 PM -0400 10/10/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>I think communism has too many negative connotations to be used 
>>nowadays... So communitarian is a new word for the old philosophy. 
>>Kinda like progressive as a replacement for statist or whatnot.
>>
>>-Declan
>
>Why give them a term which, at least to some, sounds noble?
>
>Communitarian, indeed!

	No one gave them the term, the adopted it for themselves.

>I favor the more descriptive term: simp-wimps.

	What is wrong with "Statist pricks"?
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Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government 
of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? 
Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let 
history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural





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