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Re: [OT] Liberals was: Personal hoody-hoo

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:27:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [OT] Liberals was: Personal hoody-hoo


--- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> > > >to do what we want. It's for their own good,
> after all."
> > >
> > >The British managed to avoid such.
> 
> Aside from minor details, like the items listed in
> the Declaration of
> Independence...

I didn't say it wasn't rough on the colonials.

But I really don't think it would be realistic to
describe the UK as a tyranny.  The Founding Fathers
were, if you read the DoI, mostly torqued because HM
Government weren't following their own laws.

John

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