> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/08/16 Tue PM 11:41:56 GMT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The Photographer's Rights > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "keithw" > Subject: Re: The Photographer's Rights > > > > > > > All governments that are not obviously Totalitarian in nature, do it > > gently, like put the frog in cool water, and turn up the heat verrry > > slowly... > > I have concluded that all governments want to be totalitarian, and are > always working towards that end. They use whatever tools they have at their > disposal to restrict rights and freedoms, and to generally inflict their > will on the people they ostensibly are there to serve. > In my country, they used the actions of a somewhat deranged person with a > hunting rifle to put in place a completely useless firearms registry program > which has cost billions of dollars and done very little if anything towards > what it was designed to do.
That happened here (instead of the nincompoop who gave the lunatic a firearms licence being fired) and, predictably, gun offences went up. I'm more scared of the government than loonies with guns. Or I was..... > Fear is a very good weapon to use on a population, both from the perspective > of the people trying to inflict it, and the peoplewho govern that > population. > > William Robb > > > > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
