Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Those who harbor any doubt about the fundamental nature of government > > might > > want to ponder the fate of Wesley Snipes who was sentenced yesterday to > > three years in prison for failure to pay income taxes. "Snipes' long > > prison > > sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers > > that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him > > and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an > > official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division. > > > > Handcuffs, guns, prisons --there's no escape from the ugly truth. > > > > Regards, > > Platt > > So? Sure, governments make laws. If you break the laws, the government > punishes you. No one denies that those are some of the means a government > uses. All we can do is try to make sure that the social pattern that is the > government is controlled by intellectual patterns. Obviously, in the case > of most governments intellectual patterns are pushed aside by social values, > but evolution is a continuous process.
Agree. PC is an example of social values pushing aside the intellectual pattern of free speech. And while evolution is a continuous process, within it are seeds of devolution. Regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
