Sure, we're all part of it--but we don't get to vote in one another's
countries. (By "enfranchised," I meant suffrage, literally.) Everybody's
entitled to an opinion, of course, and, when it comes to the United States,
everybody with a TV set seems to have one!
Sign me
(the other) Mrs. Simpson
on 12/9/01 3:20 AM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Actually, not sure of that, in conditions of Empire - we're all part
> of it, culturally and economically -
>
> A
>
>
>> Dissent is more a matter of "will not," Dave, as I trust you're saying to
>> your own government in your own ways. You can protest against mine too, but
>> I think you have to be enfranchised to dissent from it--and I wish you were,
>> to swell the numbers even more!
>>
>> Candice
>>
>>
>>> Not invisible to me, Candice, but you know the saying: 'you cannot run with
>>> the hares and the hounds'.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> David Bircumshaw
>>>
>>> Leicester, England
>>>
>>> Home Page
>>>
>>> A Chide's Alphabet
>>>
>>> Painting Without Numbers
>>>
>>> www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
>>>
>>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 2:39 AM
>>> Subject: Re: opinion
>>>
>>>
>>>> Aw, poor you! If it's any comfort, I've back-channeled Randolph at his
>>>> alternative e-address in hopes of getting the WHP site opened up
>>> soon--stay
>>>> tuned for bouquets of compliments.
>>>>
>>>> And if you're wrong to be somewhat optimistic about dissent, so am I and
>>>> thousands of other folks here who have been rallying for weeks, if
>>> invisibly
>>>> to David (alas).
>>>>
>>>> Be well,
>>>>
>>>> Candice
>
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>
> Alison Croggon
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