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Pastimes : The Truth about Waco -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ferguson who wrote (185)	8/30/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1449

Absolutely. People are trained to simultaneously act for their own self-interest and to sublimate their self-interest to the state, so they end up trying to fulfill their self-interest through the state. This is the quote I have on my profile: "Many prefer tyranny to freedom because tyrants can be corrupted while liberty demands innocence." -Morris West Most people don't want the system to change because they have already sold their souls to this system. It's a simple fact of human nature that if you create a system that is fundamentally corrupt and suck enough people into it, they will defend it despite their awareness of its corruption simply because they have so much invested in its continued existence. The power mongers continue to gain power at our expense and they generally don't even have to do anything to ensure that power because there are enough of us that have sold out and will defend their system for them. And it helps if you can suck the media into that corrupt system. Actually, there were many people right there (at least as close as they could get) protesting the government's actions in Waco, but they were dismissed out of hand by the hopelessly compromised media. Unfortunately, for every truly evil power-mad would-be tyrant in the world there are many who are perfectly willing to follow him around feeding off of the little crumbs of power that fall from him. In a way they are the real problem, if for no other reason than because there are so many of them. That is their strength. If you lop the head off the body survives and eventually grows a new head. Most people just feel powerless and hopeless and let the power-mongers have their way because after all, they've got so many things they have to do and after all what can one person do? "People need reassurance that life has meaning, and when all they see is confusion, lies and stupidity they get a sickness of the spirit which they cannot fight." -A.E. VanVogt ...and... "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." -Dan Simmons