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Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids

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Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:22:03 -0400
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:13:09 EDT." <[email protected]>
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[email protected] writes:
> > On 19 Jul 1996 19:51:39 Hallam-Baker wrote
> 
> >>It is no coincidence that the Tree of Liberty needs to be watered with
> >>blood on occasion.
> 
> Nope, that wasn't me who said that. I don't normally quote the words of 
> slave owners on the subject of liberty.

No one would ever accuse you of supporting freedom, Phill. I'm sure it
was an accident.

(BTW, Jefferson's slaves were inherited and an an entailment clause in
the will prevented him from freeing them during his lifetime. Not, of
course, that this matters -- the idea of confusing the messenger and
the message is the ad hominem fallacy.)

Perry

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