LL-L "Identity" 2005.04.10 (06) [E]

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From: Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Anniversary + New Yank 2005.04.10


Liobothai Dalalandarje!

Tomorrow Reinhard Hahn takes the blood-oath of U.S. citizenship. Although I
am anything but nationalistic, I offer my sincere congratulations.

The United States have always needed, and sometimes produced, people of
great courage and compassion t fight for human and minority rights. It is a
side of American immigrant character that has oft been eclipsed by other,
darker spirits.

The USA --and indeed the world-- need more like you, Ron. What a neat way to
cap off the Lowlands-L Tenth Year Anniversary! I can almost hear the strains
of Haendel's music echoing to the fireworks. Or was that gunshots? And was
the music really Pachtelbel? Or Buxtehude?

Anyhow, congrats, frijand mein.

Arthur

Arthur A. Jones
arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Identity

Thank you so much for your kind, albeit somewhat premature, words of
congratulations and welcome, dear Arthur.  It will be tomorrow in the late
afternoon (no way of telling with that lot) that (after a long and
bureaucratically torturous ride) I will be officially declared
potentate-free, at least as far as this persona is concerned, and that's
just dandy with me, for I've never been exactly a fan of potentates and
hierarchies.

It took me decades of maturing to arrive at a place where I can feel that
with such a step I am not endorsing current predominant attitudes, policies,
laws, government officials and the like, but am officially tying the knot
with an idea and an ideal that is worthy, though unfortunately far from
being realized.  The official rejection of hierarchies ("All men are born
equal"), assurance of fundamentally guaranteed freedoms, and separation from
the state yet freedom of religion, are good enough for me, and so it should
be if it was good enough for the likes of Albert Einstein and other great
_mentshn_.  I suppose there's room for me somewhere in a pool with a span as
wide as to accommodate the likes of  Richard Butler, Jerry Falwell, Noam
Chomsky and Angela Davies, not to forget the likes of you, Arthur, and Robin
as well all my other precious, passionate and compassionate American friends
on the List and elsewhere.  This sort of thing is also what I had embraced
in passionately outspoken, rough-and-tumble yet deeply compassionate, caring
and incredibly generous Australia, something I greatly admire in Canada as
well (though, of course, the latter two are not [yet] potentate-free).

So, thanks, dear Arthur!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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