<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 December 2010 22:36, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On the other hand, perhaps the guy is still a patriot who just thinks<br>
what he found was so off the rails that it needed to be corrected and<br>
this was the only way he figured it could be done. It's a problem you<br>
get from people running up against real life when they have been<br>
taught American idealism in school.<br></blockquote></div><br>Patriot for what? The Australian Empire to rule the world in a distant future?<br><br>What an Iraqi or a North Korean or even a Chinese patriot should do if he could put his hands on US confidential or embarassing information? A libertarian? An old-style anarchist?<br>
<br>Should an Australian citizen feel by definition in any especial way about it?<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>