Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Rykk wrote:
>
>>> So is your claim that the US government is a criminal, and less
>>> deserving of trust and forgiveness or even protection, which Rykk
>>> would give even sex offenders as his neighbors, than millions of
>>> actual criminals?
>>
>> It is interesting the language of that last sentence.  You seem to be
>> implying that sex offenders are not actual criminals.
>
> No, I am contrasting the US government which you do not trust, to
> millions of actual, legally convicted criminals and increasing by the
> year, which include sex offenders (if they are somehow caught and
> convicted less than three times) whom you would allow to remain
> anonymous, and to forgive and trust.
>
> So you agree that a once convicted criminal is a criminal (present
> tense). Yet you trust millions of them a year, more than your own
> government. Very interesting.

Sorry, your misunderstanding.  Particularly with this sentence, "So is your 
claim that the US government is a criminal, and less deserving of trust and 
forgiveness or even protection."  I am not arguing the the goverment is less 
deserving of anything.  I am arguing that the goverment does not deserve the 
powers you describe.  Note, the criminals are not given the powers you 
ascribe to the goverment.  So it is not a matter of "more or less" at all.

Rykk