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If I may quote - "The period when everybody was armed, and took their security into their own hands is long gone." I believe you seriously err. Certainly the wackos in Waco proved that a handful of small arms cannot stand against a determined government. Janet Reno has firepower that would make Hitler envious. And is not afraid to use it.
But, however, yet, still... pick a word. Self defense will never go out of style as long as free men breathe. The rubbish that the government will protect you and take care of you is for people who would rather be dependent than alive. Your personal security is your responsibility, and no one else's. In the USA you can't sue the police, if you are a crime victim. The courts consistently rule that the police are under no obligation to protect the individual. The individual must provide for his own protection, whether it be locks on his door or a .38 Special in her purse.
People who don't take their security into their own hands are victims. And, they deserve to be victims. In this world, the lion will lie down by the lamb only after he has eaten as much of the lamb as he wants. This will not change until the lamb learns to carry a .416 Rigby lion tamer.
Even those who have the irrational fear of firearms are usually smart enough to provide for their own security. They use locks, lights, alarms, escorts, etc.
I suspect that you wanted to say that a national defense such as Switzerland's is no longer effective in today's world. You may be right. But when personal self defense goes out of style, so will the human race.
"Paul F. Bruce"
pfbruce@cybersol.com
It wasn't the Swiss system I had in mind. but the way people took the law into their own hands in Medieval times or even quite late in the American West for instance. WM
You wrote the following on the issue of Quebec separation:
>On the other hand, we also have to see things from the point of view of non-separatists; they are Francophones who passionately love Canada, like Jean Chretien and Trudeau, (they are perhaps a minority but they exist) they are the First Nations -- Indians and Innuit who want to stay in Canada, they are Anglophones and Allophones who came to Canada and want to stay there.
Why do you assume that those Quebecers who oppose separation actually love Canada? Are there not at least two ways to vote NON on separation? One way is to love Canada and all that it stands for; that is, not to evaluate fellow Canadians in regional terms. Another way to vote NO is to take the attitude that the Quebecers should just take the money and not run. Are there not millions of Quebecers who merely love Federal assistance more than they hate the Reform Party?
I claim that the positions of the people of Quebec are over-simplified if they are merely represented as OUI and NON.
"Alfredo B. Goyburu"
goyburua@crisny.org
Usual Disclaimers Apply
"She puts the mascara on the eye of the storm."
The Bobs (from "Mopping")
We know for sure that those who vote OUI accept the loss of Canadian benefits. So, why not assume that those Quebecers who vote NON may be just as idealistic. WM
William:
Thanks for the Vagabond, which I've just discovered through a link from free-market.com. I like your ability to reflect and then to write about your reflections. Only one of the essays I've written comes close to manifesting your powers of observation, and it's humbling.
Peter
Peter Saint-Andre
New Hope, Pennsylvania
http://www.monadnock.net/peter/
Thanks Peter -- WM
I was directed to your site via a Web search for the Lvov ghetto and came across a letter in the Communication section (I believe the issue was Sept 1996) entitled "My Most Direct Encounters with the Holocaust". The author states that he lived in Lvov when the war first broke out and that he lived at the corner of Systuska Street and Smolka Sq. I would like to get in touch with him because my parents were living in Lvov at that time and had a store on Systuska. I am trying to do research about Lvov during the war years and to track down information that may be available about members of my family.
Thank you for any help you can give me in this.
Renee Stevens
stevensr@ado.army.mil
The letter you mention was in the January 96 issue. I received it, not by email but by letter from New York and the address, I think, was an Israeli one. I'm not sure if I still have the envelope. If you wish I will publish your letter -- or excerpts from it -- on the July Communication Page and perhaps some readers may be able to help you. WM
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