----- Original Message ----- From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: 'lbo_talk' <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:51 AM Subject: RE: Ashcroft & Race
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> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, John K. Taber wrote:
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> > I'm alarmed by the Southern Secessionists, and I think Ashcroft is one
> > of them. I see them as a conspiracy out to destroy the United States
> > mainly so that they can continue their crimes at the local level
> > without fear of interference from the Feds.
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> I think there's a germ of truth in this, in that they parallel
> those who brought us "devolution" after the Republican Revolution of 1994
> and "federalism" with the current Supreme Court. In each case the program
> arises from the simple fact that it takes corporations more effort to fix
> Congress than to fix a state house; contrariwise, opposition to corporate
> machinations is more possible on the federal level.
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> > On the other hand, maybe destroying the United States is something
> > this group should consider. Maybe it would reduce us to several
> > mutually suspicious states (what Madison feared), and lead to the end
> > of our imperialism.
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> William Appleman Williams, who inspired a generation of
> revisionist history in the US, suggested just before he died that the
> Constitution of 1787 should be scrapped and the US should return to the
> Articles of Confederation...
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> --C. G. Estabrook
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