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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (181257)	9/14/2001 5:45:55 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Any close examination of American 20th. century history would - I believe - show the steady diminishment of privacy rights to governments. One a right is lost it seldom comes back. You and I see eye to eye on this Buddy. I found it perfectly expressed in the quote below. Society has become so dependant on "government" for it's finances and molding societies to fit their model of what the world should look like and how others should behave. No one seems to recognize the cost. "AS long as it's "someone else" and I get mine." Today we must wrestle with issues of public safety vs. personal freedoms. While I understand and largely agree with Franklin, life, as you know, is not so cut and dry. BTW, Do you find it as distressing as I that the key to this mess rests in a peaceful resolution of the Isreal/Palastine problem? Message 14863217 The Fall Of A Republic When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. Alexander Tyler