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- From: leor@ocf.berkeley.edu (Leor Jacobi)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Off Thoughts. Sheep!?
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 08:26:26 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- References: <1992Dec26.202500.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.202500.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >Well land and such..
- >
- >Well maybe get the land the same way my fthers and their father got the land by
- >homesteading and then going and risking life to win it. Probably the same way
- >most of your family once did. Maybe by some conquest. Main question is why must
- >the FED own land? A governemtn that has financial independence from its people
-
- Why should the FED own land?
- Because if there's one thing our recent environmental history has shown its
- that the only thing worse than government ownership of land is private
- ownership!
-
- Some pieces of land are worth too much to break up and hand out to
- homesteaders. The whole can be much more than the sum of parts.
-
- >has no fealty to its members(people).. Best way to keep a government in check
- >it to provide counter ballances to its power.. Be they states (individual
- >states) or be it people willing to look into and ferret out information and to
- >not let the government get away with things that they are not legally allowed
- >to.. One of the founding priniplas of this nation was freedom for a man (or
- >women) to find his fortune and to persue it, and to have that right to persue
- >it in knowing that he is equal in that search to others.. equal right to aspire
- >and equal right to fall..(or folly)..
-
- ...ah, yes, but not a right to wreak folly on their fellow person, fellow
- creatures, and only planet.
-
- >
- >But we are finding that the FED is forgetting who they serve. The people and
- >their individual states..
- >
- >Well I just want for others to have the right to find their fortune with as
- >little interferance by busy bodies who have their fortune or little niche and
- >who think that others should be like them. Who think that all who live
- >elsewhere than east coast or big cities are crazy.. Well I like my life here in
- >a small town on the edge of the world. But we have collected alot of baggage in
- >the US.. Pledge of Alliegence, US Flag above all other states flags. There once
- >was a day when there was no pledge, when all who lived here were taken as being
- >patriotic and not nationalistic.. When Social Security was a choice and not
- >forcesd on us..
-
- That last paragraph is simply beautiful.
- It's prose like this that makes USENET so worthwhile.
-
- >
- >Well we shall see how it all works out in the end..
-
- ...hopefully
-
- >
- >Michael Adams
- >Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- >nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- --
- Leor Jacobi ,__o |"Feather-pecking and cannibalism easily become
- leor@ocf.berkeley.edu _-\_<, | serious vices among birds kept under intensive
- (*)/'(*)| conditions. They mean lower productivity and
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| lost profits." -- The Farming Express
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