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Fri Aug 27 22:42:37 UTC 2004

On 27 Aug 2004, at 11:33 pm, Eric B. Rakim wrote:

> Mr. Burling was referring to the great popular movements of the 18th, 
> 19th and 20th century that forced our governments to allow us the 
> rights we enjoy today. If it wasn't for the great thinkers and leaders 
> like Rosseau, Marx, Lenin, Benjamin Franklin, the leader of the French 
> Revolution and MILLIONS of American and Europeian nobodys that 
> actually striked and protested and got things done, then we wouldn't 
> have the rights that we have today.
>
> And THAT, solidarity through organised struggle, IS (historically) a 
> trait of Western Culture and something to be proud of.  So stop 
> hitting on Mr. Burling just cause he didn't explain it as good.

Why are you misrepresenting the discussion? What you mention certainly 
is a part of Western Culture, and a part that I am proud of myself. But 
this isn't the argument I was disputing. Why you think I should 
telepathically know what Geoff "really" meant is beyond me.

Christiaan