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- From: labach@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terence Michael Labach)
- Subject: Re: Why aren't things like plutonium shipments kept secret?
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- In-Reply-To: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca's message of 10 Nov 1992 18: 05:18 GMT
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:56:55 GMT
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- In article <1dotkuINNek2@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony
- Buckland) writes:
- >
- > I wonder why governments ask for so much trouble by doing in
- > the glare of publicity some things, like shipping masses of
- > plutonium out of France by sea, that could easily and with
- > considerable justification be done secretly.
-
- How about this as an answer: governments should be the servants of the
- citizens, and not the other way around. They should be doing what we
- wish, rather than paternalistically deciding it's best for us if they
- ship tonnes of hazardous material around willy-nilly.
-
- (Was this a trick question?)
-
- - terry -
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- original virtue."
- - Oscar Wilde
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