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From: tac@teldata.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: Re: How to fight Communism. - (nf)
Message-ID: <403@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 16:23:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 16:23:35 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

"inmet!Anonymous" writes:
>>  
>>  >>	"Give me your tired, your poor,
>>  >>       Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
>>  >>       The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
>>  >>       Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
>>  >>       I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
>>  
>>  But no illegal aliens, please!

  I always find it remarkable how many people ask me to live 
up to a poem (ever heard of poetic license ?) written by someone
else on a statue which was an unsolicited gift. 
				Uncle Sam

  The noblest of ideals may not be practical.  Plato tried
(twice) to create his republic, and ended by renouncing it
before he died (didn't teach you that when they taught you
about Plato's Republic did they?).  We, being human, cannot
always live up to our ideals.  So while I agree that the 
sentiments on the Statue are great and wish that they could
be applied and adhered to, I disagree with quick quips of
disdain for our current attitudes.  
  Just maybe if we got rid of the social programs we could
afford to open our borders again.  

    From the (downtrodden--how else to stand on it?) Soapbox of
    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

    Remember that "We the People" are Uncle Sam.

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