On Jan 14, 2008 7:17 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My common, somewhat comical, response is usually to say that I'm a > Jeffersonian radical - minimal government, no political parties, no > income tax, privacy in all transactions. I think all government > servants should be just that: servants to the people, not masters.
Sounds good. > > Some would say that makes me a conservative, but that is negated by my > position on war - I think that anyone who wages war aggressively is a > monster and should be removed from society. Curious about your use of the adverb "aggressively" here. Are you then ok with someone who wages war "unaggressively", and how, exactly, would that be possible? (Perhaps you are leaving open the possibility of a war fought purely in defense.....?) > I think the only reason > for a standing army is to protect the citizens from those monsters. I > see arms manufacturers and weapons dealers a crime lords of the worst > sort, and that includes today's huge arms sell by Shrub to the Saudis. I'm with you. Question: Can one nation's standing army be used to protect the citizens of another country, who's own army is not strong enough to do so? Or can your army ONLY be used to protect you? I'm also somewhat Utopian, in a no-borders, one world kind of way. Everyone has a utopian streak, but do you think this has real world possibilities? > > I'd like to see us take the money squandered on war and greed, and > turn this planet into a beautiful garden where no one is hungry, or > suffering needlessly. I'm not a big fan of money, though I've > acquired a bit. I think the current economic system puts too much in > the hands of too few. You sound like a hippie! > But I don't have any communistic or Marxist > leanings. The "from each according to his ability, to each according > to his needs" would only reduce us all to the level of those who > simply will not contribute. Agreed. > I don't fit anywhere politically. I don't like George Bush, or any of > the republican candidates. I don't like Hilary Clinton or any of the > democrats. There is not a single person running for office that I can > feel comfortable voting for. Not a single person on the political > scene would embrace my positions on any of the major topics. OK, you are sounding more and more like ME....this is scary. > I could > explain more in depth, but I suspect I would bore most of the people > here. But I know for certain that the label liberal, as it is > currently used by those like Sam who use it almost as a swear word, > does not approach describing my politics. This post really surprised me, actually. I'd kind of gathered from your (admittedly limited) posts on here that you were kind of....well....loony when it came to this stuff. But your ideas seem eerily similar to mine....and well...now i just don't know what to think. -- Sometime between the time you arrive and the time you go, may lie a reason you were alive, that you'll never know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250864 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
