wow... EUGLUG 1984.
the more you think about it, the more you realize you can't do anything
about it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Meuser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:18 PM
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> Subject: [EUG-LUG:1685] Re: Free Dmitry Sklyarov - Fight DMCA
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:11:10PM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
> > I hope you are right. The current attitude in this country that
> whatever a
> > large corporation says is law scares the shit out of me...
> >
> I think you can trace this back to the 1920's and in particular the
> Sect. of the Treas. at the time, Andrew Melon. I can't remember the
> exact quote, but it goes something like this:
> "The only true Americans are the industrial barons. They are the ones
> who have worked hard to make America what is is."
>
> Other interesting notes on Andrew Melon:
> He was the banker for du Pont, one of the first corporations in Ameirica.
> The du Ponts made most of their money selling muntitions. (Their highest
> profit margins of all time were during the Civil War.)
>
> He was responsible for what are known today as the FBI and the DEA.
>
> He was one of, if not THE wealthiest person in America when he was the
> Treasury Secretary.
>
> Sorry for the history bit. I just wanted point out that corruption
> is nothing new, and the US Gov't is VERY unwilling to admit that any
> mistakes were ever made.
>
> > We have the most gullible and sheepish intellectual middle class in the
> > world.
> >
> What do you expect, when our schools don't teach us to think, but to
> repeat "The Truth". I find it amusing that Plato was mentioned in this
> discussion. He said that to rule effectively, you had to propogate
> a "Golden Myth", a story (read LIE) that people would believe, so that
> they would happily go about their lives, and not cause problems (read
> THINK FOR THEMSELVES). In America, we have the Myth of Celebrity,
> the Myth of Wealth, and the ultra hippocritical Myth of Family Values.
>
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