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-Caveat Lector- Freedom, for those who can afford it -- the best freedom money can buy. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Freeee-do-o-o-m!!!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom, for those who can afford it -- the best freedom money can buy. Guaranteed by the best government that money can buy. Thus, society has built-in incentives for one to obtain and use money. You want freedom, power, influence, perks? Get money. Spend money. You got legal troubles? Buy a judge, a prosecutor, a few legislators. You got mood troubles? Buy some drugs, some therapists, some playmates. You got soul problems? Buy a church. You got sovereignty problems? Buy a country. It's all so simple and straightforward. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Like it says... "The love of money is the root of all evil" -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Freeee-do-o-o-m!!! -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom, for those who can afford it -- the best freedom money can buy. Guaranteed by the best government that money can buy. Thus, society has built-in incentives for one to obtain and use money. You want freedom, power, influence, perks? Get money. Spend money. You got legal troubles? Buy a judge, a prosecutor, a few legislators. You got mood troubles? Buy some drugs, some therapists, some playmates. You got soul problems? Buy a church. You got sovereignty problems? Buy a country. It's all so simple and straightforward. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Freeee-do-o-o-m!!!
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/colm/wayne07041999.htm Degradation of independence by Wayne Woodlief Sunday, July 4, 1999 On this Independence Day, we aren't really as free as we think we are, or want to be. In America, at the cusp of a new century, money rules - from our politics to the place we live. What does freedom, the freedom that our forefathers wrenched from the British by asserting independence 223 years ago, mean to me? At first, I thought, freedom means freedom to choose, freedom to find the kind of job you like, to buy the kind of medicine that will make you well; freedom to dream of owning a fine house in a good neighborhood; to send your kids to the schools where they have a chance to learn and thrive; freedom to choose whom you want to represent you in government. But hold on. Almost all those freedoms are limited by how much is in your wallet, and by the enormous income chasm of the '90s, with some making millions overnight in the stock market while others work two jobs to make ends meet. Just ask those folks who are being gentrified out of South Boston and the South End, priced out of neighborhoods their parents and grandparents once could afford. And a quarter of a million dollars might get you a decent place in suddenly hot Jamaica Plain. Pick the best schools? Hard to do, even if your city gets a neighborhood-oriented school assignment plan. Real freedom is the freedom to get into a charter school, but there aren't nearly enough of those. Or the freedom to choose a private school, but those are beyond the means of many parents. And thus it will continue to be, as long as the special interests and public-school lobbyists block school voucher systems. Freedom to buy the miracle medicines on the market now? Only if you're among the lucky few whose health maintenance organizations don't severely cap your prescription benefits, and thus give you some truly grim choices: Miss your mortgage payment or stint on your meds; get your husband's prescription now and yours next week; maybe skip both. Freedom isn't free. As for picking our political leaders, who can doubt anymore that big money, especially in presidential races and in the overweening influence of the special interests in the legislative branch, has handcuffed our freedom to choose? Texas Gov. George W. Bush - untested on national issues, a man with less than five years experience in any public office, a governor whose grasp of some state issues is not all that great according to some Texas journalists - is now the odds-on favorite to be our next president. One big reason why is the huge expense of campaigning now - especially with so many big state primaries that require major TV ads, such as New York's and California's, all crammed together next year - and Bush's ability to pay. He raised a record $36 million in the first six months of 1999. That's 1-1/2 times what all 10 of Bush's opponents raised, and $6 million more than the combined take of Vice President Al Gore and his Democratic opponent, Bill Bradley. Pundits are predicting that some of Bush's rivals, candidates with ideas and passion, may be priced out of the race before the first ballots are cast. That's democracy? That's freedom? We won't know until July 15 where all that cash for George W.'s campaign is coming from. That's the deadline for the candidates to file their formal fund-raising reports. But it's a safe bet that a lot of those contributions came from the oil, banking and insurance industries, from HMOs, from corporate chieftains and their lieutenants all over America; all anxious to gain access to the hottest political property on the scene, to hasten the Bush Restoration in the (White) House that Clinton soiled. Still, there's one candidate Bush's money won't scare off, one who has decided that, win or lose, he'll make reforming our rotten system of campaign finance a major theme of his campaign. That's U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Never mind that he has raised $4.1 million, dwarfed by Bush but ahead of everybody else in the Republican race, largely because he has clout as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. McCain is hellbent on changing the system. He and Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) are trying again this year to pass a bill to curb unregulated so-called ``soft money'' distributed through the two national parties. The bill also tightens disclosure rules and restricts the duplicitous, so-called ``issue ads'' that corporate and union money have paid to help favored candidates in the past. And - even as Bush hints he'll probably refuse federal matching money so that he can spend without limit - McCain, Feingold and Bradley are connecting the dots to show how special-interest money often kills popular legislation. In a series of Senate speeches, Feingold has been ``calling the
