Actually, I was working with two versions in my reply, and I cut out too much. I meant to say: Oh, this is just like the EU. All nations are equal. (If you believe that, I have a bridge for you.) And yes, the Alien & Sedition Acts were awful. So were the actions of Thomas Jefferson (and his lackey James Madison). john On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > In a message dated 9/30/2003 3:51:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > kurtzke@xxxxxx > writes: > > << Oh, this is just like the EU. > > (If you believe that, I have a bridge for you.) >> > > How would you know? > > AA > > Fan of Thomas Jefferson realizing that he was not perfect and > repealing the > Alien and Sedition Acts