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> Curt Howland wrote: > > Actually, the clear implication is that I consider the military > > occupation of 170 different countries by the US to be > > reprehensible, which causes me to wonder what the peoples so > > occupied think of it. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does it matter? We're the ones paying for it, if we think it's > reprehensible, isn't it our moral imperative to bring our boys home > and end the occupations? It's an intellectual exercise, much like saying "Isn't it our moral imperative to bring 'our boys' home?" When the IRS has a gun to my head, there isn't much to do but pay even if that money is taken to keep soldiers in someone else's front yard. I have taken every opportunity available to protest, to vote "no", to "petition", but what does Washington DC care about my opinion or my "moral imperative"? Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. At least in a monarchy or oligarchy, the ruler has some small incentive to pass on a prosperous nation to their successor. These "elected" examples of sewage have incentive only to take every bit of loot they can before their term in office is up. At least with a tyrant, they can't use the excuse, "Well, you elected me. You must _want_ the rape you get." Democracy works as a decision making process when it is voluntary, such as the Debian project. But then so does oligarchy (RedHat) and tyranny (Ubuntu, Slackware). The difference, as has been said many times before by better men than I, is coercion. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRfAdJS9Y35yItIgBAQJrJQf+P+D5W+A2kH5WEMojoYuPKRU+2cRIdG4m PmgbqotOnuXoz9oNsVDLCOVqzm9w8ewx08eJGT0uKnc92j12OWPIzKSQTECWzzyx D6d7Sa57F7K3FT5N6uei7IloLpTQh4PwrkbYu76F409Ue6rMbPsdQ4A5l/p4gylA mLvdECoS7A9nATprHyLu/e91GMOsZF7fCtLeUTuAsnzGY0keM7J1AIuHC8xW0jDl X5uq+BgIu9FymY6Iwn2c7a4uA1/La4ETnTIB+pURcuMatYjoFISNt3BHO1cSW0xY gQ7z2JiCSyAD5kDhMA/Du1xmS2bnk8uWIzpyC9HogdCQgBSoe2ygvQ== =fPSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
