> > You're assuming that most other countries would not follow
reasonable
> > leadership.
>
> But there ARE a couple of countries who don't particularly
> care for US Leadership (even if we are always right...)
>
> China, India, Japan, Venezuela, all the countries in the former USSR,
> nearly the entire Middle East and Africa....
>
> Whoa. I guess that 'couple' turned out to be 'most' after all.
>
> But other than those 4 or 5 billion people, yeah, I'd say
> we'd have the spam problem licked with just a few tough laws that we
could
> bully a few NATO countries into adopting.
We've got some serious unwrecking to do, Whil. I'm sure you've met
people in a lot of those countries and discovered that it's not you they
hate ...
> >> I don't know why you keep insisting that this is a
> >> legislative problem.
> >
> >
> > Are you getting spam on your cell phone or fax? Why not?
>
> I am. I get garbage calls on my cell weekly, and spam
> ('junk') on my fax machine daily.
I guess I'm the exception then, because it's not happening to me. In any
case, if it did, I would at least have some recourse because it's
illegal for spammers to do that.
I'm not saying we can legislate a perfect world. Indeed, our
civilization is already wounded and bleeding by too many laws and too
many lawyers. It's crucially important that underneath the things we do
to repair the damage already wrought is a major attitude change that
gets us back on track with the spirit of liberty, freedom and justice
for all. We can have law that makes sense, serves us, and we can do that
without ten million lawyers or a system that exists only for the
wealthy. This is not a contradiction, it's a challenge.
This issue, spam, may or may not be the catalyst we need, but something
must be. This particular problem would serve the purpose though, because
it's a manifestation of the same core problem that has begotten our
other great woes: that capitalism has seized control of our democracy.
Bill
> Whil
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