[OFB Cafe] PD: Something to Fan the Flames... OFB Endorses Candidates

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Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 6:59 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>> Fred Smith wrote:
>>> However, re-reading what you wrote, It's possible that you actually
>>> don't like the liberal aspects of some EU countries, and that you hate
>>> them for their freedom.  If that is the case, you were using the right
>>> word, but why do you hate freedom?
>> You don't understand the term "liberal".........we don't agree on it's
>> meaning.
> 
> I'm assuming that I've made no mistake, and that you are using it to
> mean roughly "socialist".
> 
> In which case, in defence of the other Fred, I appreciate that yours
> is the common US-American usage, but I do find it rather dangerous and
> counter-productive to use words in opposition to their dictionary
> meaning in this way :). It has, after all, been a strategy of some of
> the worst regimes in history to characterise their political ideology
> as the complete opposite to that which they actually espouse.
> 
> Dan.
> 
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For an American perspective in an English newspaper see:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/04/do0402.xml


Terence