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To: epicure who wrote (137860)	6/24/2004 5:40:16 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 281500

X, I like to think that you confuse the failure to exercise power with the lack of power. In many ways the American public is a sleeping giant lying quietly in the sun and dozing. That's our preferred method of spending our time; relaxing, enjoying our families, working playing etc., but if we ever feel we're endangered or being harmed then we have all the tools to exercise democratic power and change the leadership, the laws and the "way things are." That is, we have such tools as long as the judiciary is in place to protect our constitutional rights by enforcing our wishes and as long as the executive branch police and military arms respect the decisions of the judiciary, and, as long as so many of us own guns. In the meantime we are becoming more and more the "oligarchy- run primarily by the wealthy and for the wealthy." They must remember, however, to walk lightly and leave us dozing in peace. That means that they can't get too crazy overseas and sacrifice too many of our children and our dollars in the pursuit of opaque goals.

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