On 2/22/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I care about chavez because I care about the cause of liberty and > democracy gnerally, and I think you overstate our loss of liberty at > home.
Take a look at what's happened in the last 50-100 years, and tell me we're "overstating" our loss of liberty. Downplaying it is not patriotic. They just passed a "cell phone ban" while driving here in bood-k. It annoys me. Much as the "smoking ban" stuff bugs me. Yet here we are, not just letting the .gov in to our lives, but asking for it. Groups of people can do much good, and much evil. When two such groups team up for mutual gain, at the expense of the other groups (as I believe has slowly been happening with big $$$ and the .gub) that's a Bad Thing. I don't think Dana has said she's anti-corps, but I do think yall have come off as pro-corps, which is as silly as anti would be. Why isn't reform a big ticket item? We all know our processes are kinda screwed, but where's all the hubbub about getting 'em fixed? Campaign reform? Voting logs for crissakes? We've got senators/reps basically being bribed (pork projects, whatnot) yet this is OK with everybody? I am forced to think about the AIDS in the hemoglobin, when I think about the evils the love of money can lead people into. And if it takes some knee-jerk, 30 second newsbite type deal to get people to think about the environment- I say go for it. We've already let our freaking leader mislead us to pursue his personal agenda- there's a precedent, neh? That's just how it works now, it looks like. Get all excited, ignore the facts. SOP. We'd be stoopid to NOT try to reduce our impact on the planet tho. Perhaps not the dumbest people, no-- we'd be the most successful retards. Conan- I heart you, me hearty! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228790 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
