Hi Tim,

  It does not mean you are joining the bad guys'  when you refuse to play
according to their dictates.

It just means you do not have a suicide complex.


Laurie

Laurie and Desley Forde
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Without a treaty, which spells out the obligations and rights of both
parties, there can be no Reconciliation in Australia----Geoff Clark.





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> Bad guys win when everyone starts playing by the bad guys' rules.  The
> justification that 'it was political' doesn't wash - unless we defend the
> right of John Howard or whoever to use the same excuse.  It was a
political
> decision that stopped the Lib backbenchers crossing the floor on mandatory
> sentencing and I don't think anyone was defending them on those grounds
> then.
>
> I know that, if this was about Howard, I'd be screaming for him to step
down
> and I suspect a lot of other people on the list would be too (though I
agree
> he probably wouldn't).  Like I said originally, consistency says I should
> expect Clarke to do the same.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurie Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Re: The Canberra Times: Burke calls on ATSIC
chair
> to stand down while ...
>
>
> > The  timing of the charges against Clark was obviously  political .
> >
> >Considering this circumstance, in my opinion, Clark should not step down
> >unless he is found guilty of the charges, and is required to do so by his
> >fellow commissioners ---otherwise the bad guys win again----and that's
not
> >good, is it?
> >
> >Laurie
> >
> >Laurie and Desley Forde
> >Email.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Without a treaty, which spells out the obligations and rights of both
> >parties, there can be no Reconciliation in Australia----Geoff Clark.
> >
>
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