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- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: But it is OK to coerce certain groups...
- Message-ID: <14134@optilink.COM>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 01:08:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.013846.22036@netcom.com> <1k3uvbINN223@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1k6knkINN390@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1k6knkINN390@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (coram populo) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan27.073620.1477@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- > >Groups that were/are a victim of something other than the State:
- > > About zero.
- >
- > British citizens during the Industrial Revolution- but oh no, those
- > business people were doing them a favor, exploiting their labor,paying
- > them nearing nothing, pushing them into ghettos, etc. No problem here.
-
- Pushing? No. People moved to the cities to work in factories because,
- even with the miserable conditions there, it was better than starving
- in the countryside. A case can be made that the Enclosure Acts
- made things much worse for the rural poor -- but again, that's a
- GOVERNMENT action.
-
- Someone obviously hasn't bothered to take a history class about the
- period. (Or any other.)
-
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
-