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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (25549)11/22/2007 10:31:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217551
 
An important distinction which most people don't care about: < coercion and free will are different things.. >

China refused to allow people in China to make their own decisions on whether to ingest opium or not. The freedom-loving British resisted the depradations of those who wished to stop people buying what they wanted. Thank goodness for Britain.

Look at Hong Kong today compared with other parts of China. The difference is thanks to the British sense of freedom and individuals, private property, capitalism, science, rationality and inventiveness.

Sadly, freedoms across what was tentatively called the "free world" have been circumscribed to the point of disappearance. People are everywhere nothing more than state serfs. Mere chattel cattle to be exploited and repressed by those who get themselves into power.

There are still glimmerings of hope, such as Dr Ron Paul who is running for President of the USA. But few Americans like freedom - certainly not for other people. They have voted for decades for more and more government and that's what they have got, good and hard. Some are starting to regret that, though it seemed like a good idea at the time.

In NZ, we are way down the track of limited freedom. We are allowed to pick out noses in private and that's about it. Everything else is forbidden, other than the things which are compulsory. Apart from lack of freedom, the government also takes over half the money [about 60% or maybe it's 70%].

Mqurice
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