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To: AC Flyer who wrote (21891)	7/31/2002 4:52:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

ACF, the good thing about democracies is that it's not really the government at fault, it's the electorate. India has remained poor for half a century and they have only themselves to blame, though there is still a rearguard action to blame the British. Africa is still blaming the British. Mugabe is railing against British machinations. Heck, the Arabs are still blaming the British. Hong Kong doesn't blame the British, but haven't yet figured out that they lost something good when they lost British freedom [not perfect but better than most]. I've been colonized by QUALCOMM and the USA but it was voluntary. That's the way the best colonization is done - bribery and belonging to a better gang. Maoris, overall, were bribed into colonization and they've done very well from it [though the British diseases and some bad habits - influenza, booze, baccy - picked up from the American Indians, killed off a lot, irrespective of colonization]. We had a lot of British unionists come here, take over the unions and cause no end of problems through the 1970s and 1980s. The current government has brought back strikes and industrial problems. We have a vast MYCDT and it's growing daily. Rules and regulations are brought in daily, but there are very few repeals, which means the total mass of regulations is now far beyond even an approximate ability to comply with them. Lawyers and judges haven't got a clue what all the laws are. Normal humans are supposed to know all the laws while in the midst of commercial battle. It's impossible. It's only after arcane pondering that the legal profession can figure stuff out, then they reverse themselves on thinking about it a bit more, then reverse themselves again. It's all quite insane. Mqurice