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In a message dated 07/16/2000 9:24:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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[I will be glad to answer your original question. I am waiting to see how
others respond first. Perhaps the question could be amplified a bit. I
take it to mean something like this: Where on earth, in history, in the
present, has democracy existed? What individuals have died in defense of
democracy, true democracy, and worked tirelessly toward its realization?
----Is that a fair summary of your inquiry?]
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it's the usual warping that occurs when a straightforward thought enters the
twisty ravines of your serpentine thought -- especially the last segment of
your interpretation of my question. O where is the Democracy of wei-en-lin?
does it echo in the musty dungeons of his imagined Confucianism or in the
trembling reminisces of the Name-of-the-Father?
jb....
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