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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hobo who wrote (1318)	1/16/2001 11:14:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

the situation has arraived to what it is BECAUSE the church and the heavy influence that to this day has over the people, ( ALL PEOPLE), has allowed this to happen. Bullshit. People have been fighting for power, and abusing those without power for all of human history. Hatred, greed, lust for power, curruption, none of these things where created by religion. The church did not cause it to happen nor did they "allow" it to happen because they do not have the power to stop it. If you include smaller more isolated incendents no one has the power to stop it. Tim

To: hobo who wrote (1318)	1/16/2001 11:15:13 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If you're interested in atrocities and restitution, you should look at the track records of the manufacturers of infant formula, who for decades sent marketing reps around to maternity wards in developing countries, distributing free samples. Of course the samples were calculated to last only until the mothers stopped lactating. Forcing the use of bottled formula in areas where both clean water and adequate fuel supplies for sterilization are unavailable is tantamount to mass infanticide. Nobody has begun to calculate how many infants died, and no effort has been made to gain restitution, though many of the parents are alive. Of course, they are just dark people, and the companies involved are large and publicly held....