Mr. Barry:
<<I object strongly to the fear mongers who claim that our whole system is riddled with conspiracies to take away our rights or our freedom. OTOH, I do believe that there is a religious fundamentalist conspiracy to make America a fundamentalist state.>>
You only see what you want to see. You paint the conservatives in this country with a broad and slimy brush, and the Clintonistas can, at worst, make a small faux pas. Such a simplistic view implies a simple mind, IMHO.
<<We could also use an effective war on drugs that we aren't constantly losing.>>
How are we going to "win the war on drugs" in a free society, when we can't keep them out of our most controlled population - the prisons? The "war on drugs" presents the government with a major potential opportunity, IMHO, to further infringe on our rights. As I said before, the real threat to our liberty isn't so much the fringe groups - it's our government itself.
You say our democratic system has all our freedoms protected because we can just elect someone new if we're dissatisfied; but did you know that until term limits were initiated, there was a greater turnover in the USSR's Duma (where there was only a one party system) than in our Congress. That's because Congress stacked the deck to make it difficult for anyone outside the main parties to gain access to the public, while those in office flood our mail boxes and TV with a deluge of self-serving propaganda.
Race horses are fitted with blinders so they won't be distracted from running their race...people are supposed to be smart enough to be able to filter out the distractions for themselves, and shouldn't wear blinders - don't you find them limiting? |
