Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...knowing full well they carry in their hip-pocket more political principle than most people have in their whole beings, they tend to press their advantage. And when they engage you in conversation, it's no well-who-do-you-think-is-more-dangerous-Carter-or-Reagan sort of argument; before you can blink they will be talking natural right theory. Without some preparation, you might be embarassed; worse, you might be converted to a school of thought as noxious as any that exists. But libertarians can be beaten, or at least fought to a draw. What follows...
...Foreign policy--here is where you can start to draw blood. Libertarians follow a strict non-interventionist line, but they will allow business to do as it will. If their argument is that America should not force its beliefs on other peoples, ask them why they'd allow corporations to form their own armies (Clark promised they would have that privilege). And if they defend--as in most cases they will--the rights of companies to sell their products without control or review, ask them about the sale of nuclear weapons to foreign lands. "I guess I'd allow them...
...Lose the Argument...
...public for inspection. Wrote Judge Jon Newman: "We do not believe the public at large must be sanitized as if they all would become jurors in the remaining Abscam trials." Myers appealed, arguing that broadcasting the tapes would "severely undermine" his appeal. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his argument last week...
Even if the Government wins its argument in the Supreme Court, the passage of time has created formidable obstacles. Simply showing that an immigrant was, say, a camp guard and that he later concealed that fact means locating survivors of the camp and hoping they can identify that person after 35 or 40 years have passed. The Justice Department had to go to Israel to find the six witnesses against Fedorenko, and the Philadelphia trial of another suspected war criminal is taking place in part because department lawyers located and video-taped nine Soviet witnesses in the Ukraine...