That is very true, may be we should make the act of omission a crime. and it is one politicians regularly use.
Unfortunately dishonesty is a way of life for quite a few people, and that is not just restricted to politicians either. Allan On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with Tinker - I'd say we wake most days with a hangover from a > date-rape drug and barely know what is happening to us, rather knowing > we have been stiffed. The penny has not dropped, even though the > reasons for the trauma will be plain once we can see them. The > metaphor for our system might well be child abuse. I was worn out > long ago trying to get some reasonable change. It's more or less > impossible unless there are enough decent people about, and you have > some 'near and dear' support. Catalysts are often quickly poisoned. > In the UK we are probably on the verge of revolution - an unlikely > place, most would think. We are a clapped-out old colonial power in > an age of decadence (being Britain, this is decadence without > money!). No one gives a damn about anyone else - the best examples of > this are the bits and pieces of disaster reviews we get to see after > people die. Even those you might suppose to be our 'finest' - cops, > social workers, doctors, health visitors and the whole wad of > politicians - all these turn out to be utterly crap and incapable of > acting even on very clear evidence. It's clear they lie in internal > reporting and that supposed regulation is useless because it only > finds anything out after unnecessary deaths. I say revolution because > we are either going to find ways to work openly and have an open > politics, or we are going to spend a long time in the pit. I hope we > go forwards, but our politics is more or less non-existent or > infiltrated by interests that are far more powerful than our vote. > It would be lovely if Blair could be linked to "American interests" > long before the idiot Iraq fiasco (novels already have him or his wife > as CIA) - but the real issues concern most of us being uninformed, not > bright and so on - all severe problems for democratic solutions. The > answer is presumably not the old one of the great man and lies in > something more collective (bees and cockroaches manage it). This is > not obvious stuff by any means - as a populace we are easily > manipulable and our genetics predispose us to some behaviour that is > not democratic or rational. Most of us are swayed by advertising (and > in denial about it) and gullible to Madoff-like scams - hardly > surprising politicians can act by preventing access to information we > need (and the investigation processes to get to it) and promising > again on promises broken for the last hundred years. Maybe Tink has a > proven case, but he sure ain't revealed it to us - unlike the guy who > blew Madoff out to the SEC 10 years ago, raising them to Defcon levels > of inactivity. > > On 29 June, 08:57, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > > from the "Art of War" by Sunzi in the 6th century B.C.E. "One may know > how > > to conquer without being able to do it." .... "to see the sun and the > moon > > is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a > > quick ear." > > Allan > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, frantheman <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 29 Jun., 07:21, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > to not answer = 'no' answer > > > > > > Doesn't it? :-) > > > > > a question is not answered because readers don't consider it > > > worth answering. > > > > > *** (wonders) Why am I answering this? ... *** > > > > > Francis > > > > ;o) > > > > -- > > ( > > ) > > I_D Allan > > > -- ( ) I_D Allan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
