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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: t4texas who wrote (26819)11/3/2003 3:58:57 PM
From: whitepine  Read Replies (2) of 206085
 
t4texas,

Forget Whitman. Democracy is little more than an legal arena for the special interests to rule. At this moment, the PC-crowd controls the game. Little matter the promise of democratic theory. For my part, I find Orwell's Animal Farm more instructive for those who trying to understand the modern era.

In my brief life I have witnessed legions of people who stood aside when they should have stood up for principles. As a nation, we have none, at least in practice, even as those in power proclaim otherwise. Montesquieu's story about the Troglodytes suggests what happens when a people loses their attachment to principles.

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