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'tis a pity that the reposte to a claim for legitimacy in the
governance of what is now a global resource is the same or similar
to the Global War on Terror - 'they hate our freedoms'. <br>
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It is nothing like that at all, the claim to legitimacy is a value
in and of itself. Some may feel this is not important, and others
not. We can agree to disagree. And the blithe anti-Americanism is
not quite that, it is kinda like a Boston Tea party saying no
taxation without representation... if that is anti-British, then so
be it... but the point is far more subtle than it is made out to
be... And some of us third worldists do reserve the right to
determine the terms of the terms of the debate... and if aint broke
dont fix it nor impossibility does not cut it... despite US support
for Apartheid in my country, black people won their freedom, and so
did Rosa Parks....<br>
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There are numerous instances of problems with current arrangements,
but the Cavebear (Karl Auerbach) speaks to that more eloquently
than I ever could, but for instance the conflation of web addys with
intellectual property rights for instance - kind of like a lex
mercatoria, making law in the absence of law.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013/01/25 06:17 PM, Koven Ronald
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:8CFC92E8FE2B559-241C-104DC@webmail-d146.sysops.aol.com"
type="cite"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Yet the kind of generalized
dislike of America and the Americans so blithely expressed in
the discussions on this list doesn't, however, "speak to my
condition" (as my Quaker teachers would put it).</font></font></blockquote>
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