Re: 9/11/01+3

From: Dennis M. Hammes (scrawlmark_at_arvig.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:26:35 GMT

Jonathan wrote:
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> "Dale" <dmh7@citilink.com> wrote in message news:4143B97D.4070400@citilink.com...
> >
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> > Jonathan wrote:
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> > > That's what democracy is all about. What some want is a strong leader, a
> > > reformer to thumb their nose at convention, but is that really a good thing?
> > > That's when half the country gets something shoved down their throat
> > > by the other half. That is bad government.
> > >
> > >
> > > And just because the two are sold to the public in well-worn ways doesn't
> > > mean they're more of the same. Would the Iraq war have happened if
> > > Gore won? Of course not. Would the tax giveaway and deficits happened?
> > > Would millions be about to lose their overtime? And on and on and on.....
> >
> > No, Iraq probably wouldn't have happened if gore had been president, but
> > this war or that war is hardly the problem: gore would probably have
> > found his own way to assert his membership in the prevailing process,
> > and other people would be dead. That's the way it goes, president after
> > president, Democrat or Republican, because most members of both sides
> > are merely the paid whores of corporate culture, and the arms industry
> > must be fed. and - besdies all that - the other processes
>
> You're certainly correct that there are countless forces, selfish and
> otherwise, that make change difficult. And makes any one person
> or even a politician seem inconsequential in comparison. But keep
> in mind if our system was easy to change it would also be
> unstable, and even more dangerous to us and others.
>
Jon-Boy,
  It would not be at all difficult to make change if you'd just quit
putting those Holy Letters "like the big people use" into your
arithmetic.

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