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Pastimes : The California Energy Crisis - Information & Forum

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1458)9/30/2002 4:34:24 PM
From: LPS5  Read Replies (1) of 1715
 
NO!

Hurting inside? Aw. LOL!

Like I said, not an ounce of substantiation. All you've got is wishful thinking and fear, and not in that order.

If you cannot see how much more rot there is in our system...

Rest assured, I see it. The ever-encroaching welfare state, the penal nature of the tax code, Constitutional property right violations by the Department of Justice, Byzantine drug laws, civil liberties violations by police departments, religious fundamentalists permitted to shape domestic and foreign policy - worse yet, from under a tax free shelter, years of appeasement of hostile foreign governments, and the list goes on.

...rewarding these criminal enterprises...

Truly "criminal" enterprises should be shut down. None are more criminal in scope or size than the government bureaucracy that acts as an instrument of coercion, has utterly undermined the Constitution - and in a near-inversion of its' principles - endeavors to keep people from being responsible for their actions.

That's the first enterprise that needs to be scrutinized.

You've only referred to a "military-industrial complex," incidentally. Got any specific examples, and evidence, from credible sources?

Surely you wouldn't suggest that I should take you exclusively at your word...?

...than some helpless woman and child...

None are helpless who are willing to help themselves. "Fish for a man, he eats for a day..."

I personally don't sell the human ability to survive, to succeed against odds, to turn a bad situation around short.

Why do you? Personal experience?

It's my "woman and child" I'm most concerned with. That's who my effort goes to first and foremost. There's a pecking order after that, depending upon whether we're talking about work, my community, social interaction, the specific nature of the need, etc.

...then you truly are monstrous.

:-) "In your opinion" is what you meant, right?

If the Constitution of the United States is monstrous, and looking out for ones' own family, friends, and self first monstrous, I'll gladly take that title. Proudly, in fact.

LPS5
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