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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal,talk.environment,sci.environment,alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Government to Grant Swift Endangered Species Act Protection to Hundreds of Imperiled Species
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:35:00 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Dec17.060929.29376@r-node.gts.org> <BzEwJ2.71z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec18.182903.19389@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec21.153441.8780@ke4zv.uucp>,<22DEC199213514739@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <22DEC199213514739@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>, bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Barry Schlesinger) writes:
- =However, individuals may gain corrupting power independent of a
- =government. In fact, if there is no government or equivalent social
- =compact, those individuals who start with more power will concentrate
- =it more to themselves and use it to contro others. Those without
- =power will have less effective control over their own lives as they
- =would under a democratic government. Under a democratic government you
- =can choose the rule makers and evaluate them by the rules they make,
-
- You make such a nice sheep. Never questioned the propaganda they fed you in
- high school civics class, have you? Please answer the following questions:
- 1) When's the last time your vote mattered in an election?
- 2) When's the last time an election was decided largely based on the
- question of who had the bigger advertising budget?
- Now, please reevaluate your claim that "[u]nder a democratic government you can
- choose the rule makers."
-
- >under the concentration of power by economics you have no such choice.
-
- There is no such choice under "democratic goverments" either. However, some
- people, like you, prefer to believe in the comforting illusion.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-