<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is a direct personal attack. Stop it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- s</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 23, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Russell Wallace wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 12/23/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brett Paatsch</B> <<A href="mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au">bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au</A>> wrote:<BR> <DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Russell, no polity can survive without the rule of law. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">That is what this is ultimately about, the rule of law.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR> What this is actually about is you being the sort of worm that used to lick the feet of Hitler and Stalin when they were in power, and nowadays must fall back on the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. (Bush has undoubtedly done some bad things - I've seen Americans reasonably criticize his domestic policies - but you are quite a few light years short of being capable of understanding the difference between good and bad.) You aren't worth cluttering up the list for, but you inadvertently raise a point that is, and needs reply; I'll address it in a separate message.<BR> </DIV><BR> - Russell<BR> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>