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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
In-Reply-To: livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com's message of 17 Feb 1995 00:12:41 GMT
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In article <3i0plp$2md@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:

   I think I'd like to hear a clearer statement about European
   democracy.   We seem to hear a lot about European elections
   not being free, or having only single candidates. from Esperanto 
   fans, and I've seen more than one comparison between the EC 
   and the old Soviet Union.

You have a very devious habit of misquoting others. All the remarks
ever made on the lack of freedom of choice were related to the
choice of languages to learn. No one ever claimed that elections
in the EU were not free. Saying that "the freedom of choice of
languages in European schools is no better than the freedom of
choice between political candidated in the Soviet Union" is in
no way a comparison between the EU and the Soviet Union.

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